Fresh
This is a slender movie that Haynes gives plenty of antique atmosphere.
Wesley Morris, Grantland
Carol
Some people change your life forever.
2015 · 1h 58m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Todd Haynes
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Carol
Overview
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Director and cast
- Todd Haynes Director
- Cate Blanchett as Carol Aird
- Rooney Mara as Therese Belivet
- Kyle Chandler as Harge Aird
- Jake Lacy as Richard Semco
- Sarah Paulson as Abby Gerhard
- John Magaro as Dannie McElroy
- Cory Michael Smith as Tommy Tucker
- Kevin Crowley as Fred Haymes
- Nik Pajic as Phil McElroy
- Carrie Brownstein Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Haynes taps into universal anxieties about love and relationships without ever letting go of the sense of imprisonment that came with being gay in the 1950s.
David Sims, The Atlantic
Fresh
Haynes maintains the film's temperature at a low simmer and expertly brings it to the boil, but while "Carol" builds to a scene of intense eroticism, it's mostly about all the things you can't reach out and touch.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh
This is about two people who didn't know what their lives were until they met each other, then scrambling, in their muted, buttoned-up way, to figure out what happens next. Haynes loves them so much that he believes they can. You will too.
Will Leitch, The New Republic
Rotten
As a love story this left me unsatisfied, though I enjoyed the lush period trappings and the flattering sense of how enlightened I am compared to people in the 1950s.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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