Storyline
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Directors
Cast
Cate Blanchett, Kyle Chandler, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Ken Strunk, John Magaro, Richard Doone, Kevin Crowley, Cory Michael Smith, Jake Lacy, Carrie Brownstein, Nik Pajic, Trent Rowland, Sadie Heim, Kk Heim, Amy Warner, Michael Haney, Wendy Lardin, Pamela Evans Haynes, Greg Violand, Michael Ward, Kay Geiger, Christine Dye, Deb G. Girdler, Douglas Scott Sorenson, Mike Dennis, Ann Reskin, Annie Kalahurka, Linnea Bond, Steven Andrews, Tanya Smith, Ryan Wesley Gilreath, Chuck Gillespie, Jeremy Parker, Giedre Bond, Liberty Fraysure, Robert J. Ashe, Anita Farmer Bergman, Colin Botts, Chelsea Carnder, Gary Chinn, William Cross, Taylor Frey, Michael Joseph Thomas Ward
Trailer
Reviews
100
The Guardian
It is a creamily sensuous, richly observed piece of work, handsomely detailed and furnished: the clothes, the hair, the automobiles, the train carriages, the record players, the lipstick and the cigarettes are all superbly presented. The combination of all this is intoxicating in itself.
100
A nuanced tale of mutual attraction that reflects a filmmaker and cast operating at the height of their powers, rendering complex circumstances in strikingly personal terms.
100
Made of crystal and suppressed tears, shot eternally through windows and mirrors and half-closed doors, Todd Haynes' Carol is a love story that starts at a trickle, swells gradually to a torrent, and finally bursts the banks of your heart. A beautiful film in every way, immaculately made, and featuring two pristine actresses glowing across rooms and tousled bedclothes at each other like beacons of tentative, unspoken hope.
100
Carol is gorgeous, gently groundbreaking, and might be the saddest thing you’ll ever see. More than hugely accomplished cinema, it’s an exquisite work of American art, rippling with a very specific mid-century melancholy, understanding love as the riskiest but most necessary gamble in anyone’s experience.
100
Even high expectations don’t quite prepare you for the startling impact of Carol, an exquisitely drawn, deeply felt love story that teases out every shadow and nuance of its characters’ inner lives with supreme intelligence, breathtaking poise and filmmaking craft of the most sophisticated yet accessible order.
