Synopsis
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
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Cast
- Rooney MaraTherese Belivet
- Cate BlanchettCarol Aird
- Kyle ChandlerHarge Aird
- Jake LacyRichard Semco
- Sarah PaulsonAbby Gerhard
- John MagaroDannie McElroy
- Cory Michael SmithTommy Tucker
- Kevin CrowleyFred Haymes
- Nik PajicPhil McElroy
- Carrie BrownsteinGenevieve Cantrell
Recommendations
- 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
IndieWire
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
The Playlist
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
The Telegraph
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
Variety
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. - 100
Time Out London
Gestures, looks and touches carry enormous weight, and Blanchett and Mara, both excellent, invite micropscopic readings of their every glance and movement. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Blanchett makes an indelible impression as a woman who, through breeding, intense personal cultivation and social expectations, has brilliantly mastered the skill of navigating through life. - 90
Screen Daily
It’s such stately, evocative, confident filmmaking, the only reservation being that it’s also a bit chilly.
