Review of Carol (2015) by Ydnar4 — 28 Feb 2016

Carol is a well crafted film. Both Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett are well cast and both deserved their Oscar nominations. Your eye is just drawn to Blanchett throughout the movie and I think that she is the real star of the film even though Mara may actually get more screen time overall.

Todd Haynes direction is great as well and although the time the film is based in is the 1950's it doesn't take over the story. It looks great and you feel like you are in the 50's but you far more drawn to the two actresses.

I thought that the music was Oscar worthy also. It is a bit of a boring film though and there are some points where I had a difficult time paying attention. The only other small problem I had with Carol was Kyle Chandler's role was almost supposed to be villainous but he really wasn't that bad of a person.

There can still be some enjoyment in this as well.