Carol

— I haven't read Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Price of Salt” but “Carol” just seems like what a film adaptation should be. A sparse script, perfect period feel, and subtle acting. It evolves more like a relationship than a film, with a mix of intimacy and danger, messy and complicated heading toward an uncertain destination. It seems to move a little slowly at first but that’s not a criticism since layers are being added to a complicated and emotional glimpse of a 1950’s love story involving two women.

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[2015. 118 min. Directed by Todd Haynes. Starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, and Sarah Paulson.]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/carol/review/