Carol (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Todd Haynes
	Actors: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler
	Country: USA, GB
	Genre: Romance, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 07.12.2015, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English version
Synopsis: A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet (Mara), is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store when she meets Carol (Blanchett), an alluring woman trapped in a convenient marriage. As an immediate connection sparks between them, the innocence of their first encounter dims and their connection deepens. Carol's husband (Chandler) begins to question her competence as a mother as her involvement with Therese and close relationship with her best friend Abby (Sarah Paulson) come to light.
Review: This movie was promising to me as the story of two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. The contrast with the time convention sounded very interesting. I learned only later that it was a best-seller novel by Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt.  I have been quite disappointed to find a conventional story-telling and finally not much facts building the relationships. There are beautiful long looks from Blanchett and Rooney Mara to each other, but not many events or gestures setting the ties between them. I found the story quite poor while the pitch was excellent and the acting was good.
Rating: 4 /10