Carol

Drama, Romance | 2015 | R. 1hr 58min
CAST: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson DIRECTOR: Todd Haynes CAPTIONED ON WEDNESDAYS - 2016 Oscar Nominee

Set in 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman. Adapted from the Patricia Highsmith novel "The Price of Salt."

2016 Oscar Nominee for:

Best Actress - Cate Blanchett

Best Supporting Actress - Rooney Mara

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Cinematography

Best Costume Design

Best Original Score

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Reviews

Loneliness and longing are at the center of these two women's lives, at least for a while, and they're expressed by nuance and implication in a pair of superb performances, and by a lovely evocation of the period.

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

At once ardent and analytical, cerebral and swooning, "Carol" is a study in human magnetism, in the physics and optics of eros. With sparse dialogue and restrained drama, the film is a symphony of angles and glances, of colors and shadows.

A.O. Scott, New York Times