Load of rubbish!!

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Carol is a true masterpiece. Acting is brilliant. Costume, hair and make-up is fantastic. Todd Haynes tells a wonderful story in this movie and it is a shame that Carol did not recieve any more Oscars than it did.

CarolGazing each other across the room or touching someone for the first time or even talk about them to someone else is depicted as electrifying as it is in real life and this is something that very few of them can achieve. Carol is a suave and mild love story that is too practical to be a film and still Todd Haynes pulls it off with Phyllis Nagy's smart adaptation from the novel with enough drama for the audience to rely upon for 2 whole hours. Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are the keys that withholds the audience throughout the movie with a great supporting cast like Sarah Paulson and Kyle Chandler. Carol as mentioned earlier is electrifying mortified portrayal of two stellar performances that subdued the smart writing, perfect editing and horrific emotions running in each and every scene in it.

Todd Haynes' 'Carol', like much of his output, paints a inch-perfect picture of life as it was the 1950s, at least for the middle and upper-middle classes, the sort of protrayal that emphasises the idea that the past is another country and they do things differently there. My gut reaction is to dislike this approach, to feel that a focus on aesthetic differences or behavioural norms hides the essential truth that underneath, we're the same as we always have been. But I can't help but praise 'Carol', a quietly mesmerising movie about two women who have a very socially-unacceptable affair. The acting is good, the score is excellent, but what's really brilliant is that the film works as a portrait of individuals, motivated by their own mixtures of desire and need. This is less a story about the right to be gay, per se, as one about the more general right just to be yourself; but it doesn't shy away from presenting the innate selfishness of asserting that right. I particularly liked the way Cate Blanchett's eponymous character, older and glamourous, initially appears to be calling all the shots, but in fact it's her mousy companion who turns out to have the firmer idea of what she really wants. A subtle and excellent movie.

Film Review: "Carol" (2015) - The camera sways from the streets into interiors of a hotel's restaurant. Actresses Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara sit at a table for an afternoon coffee in ambiance of 1950s New York. Sensual looks, delicate gestures and the whispering words of loving in one's ear. Director Todd Haynes delivers a film of emotional splendor between feminine emotions running towards the kiss, changing a world for two women repressed in their existence to share moments of balancing mutuality, where the past, present and future merge under a fleeing feel of society, class and normed conventions blast to pieces. The inner core relationship between a director and his two leading ladies becomes evident in a deep understanding of what makes the world tick before it is gone.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)