Carol (2015)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 118m
Director: Todd Haynes
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler
Synopsis:
1950s New York, and a burgeoning love affair between a shop assistant and a forty year-old mother about to go through a divorce looks like threatening the latter's chances of ever seeing her daughter again.
Review:
Haynes again turns to this period to provide his suffering female characters with a primly elegant social backdrop, and this time he strikes the motherlode. The handling is exquisitely understated, the actresses are note perfect, and the film ends with one of those silently exchanged gazes that make movie history. Carter Burwell contributes a characteristically well tailored score that channels Philip Glass shamelessly, but we can forgive him that. In fact the whole film plays like a long overdue 'fuck you' to Brief Encounter's middle class conservatism.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 118m
Director: Todd Haynes
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler
Synopsis:
1950s New York, and a burgeoning love affair between a shop assistant and a forty year-old mother about to go through a divorce looks like threatening the latter's chances of ever seeing her daughter again.
Review:
Haynes again turns to this period to provide his suffering female characters with a primly elegant social backdrop, and this time he strikes the motherlode. The handling is exquisitely understated, the actresses are note perfect, and the film ends with one of those silently exchanged gazes that make movie history. Carter Burwell contributes a characteristically well tailored score that channels Philip Glass shamelessly, but we can forgive him that. In fact the whole film plays like a long overdue 'fuck you' to Brief Encounter's middle class conservatism.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 118m
Director: Todd Haynes
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler
Synopsis:
1950s New York, and a burgeoning love affair between a shop assistant and a forty year-old mother about to go through a divorce looks like threatening the latter's chances of ever seeing her daughter again.
Review:
Haynes again turns to this period to provide his suffering female characters with a primly elegant social backdrop, and this time he strikes the motherlode. The handling is exquisitely understated, the actresses are note perfect, and the film ends with one of those silently exchanged gazes that make movie history. Carter Burwell contributes a characteristically well tailored score that channels Philip Glass shamelessly, but we can forgive him that. In fact the whole film plays like a long overdue 'fuck you' to Brief Encounter's middle class conservatism.