Carol
2015
*****
Director: Todd Haynes
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy, Kyle Chandler
Therese, a young aspiring photographer, works in a department store, where she meets Carol, an older woman who is going through a nasty divorce. Todd Haynes' exquisite drama about forbidden love in the 1950s is pretty much perfect in all departments. The screenplay by Phyllis Nagy (from Patricia Highsmith's novel The Price of Salt) is excellent, the performances are superb, the sets and costumes are beautiful, and the score by Carter Burwell is hauntingly moving.
