CAROL – Review by MaryAnn Johanson

The first beautiful thing about Carol is its sheer perfection as a movie. As an example of how filmed storytelling can paint characters so vivid you feel like they are people you have always known, and then drop you into their world and wrap you up in the enrapturing emotions they are experiencing. On the level of craft, what movies do isn’t done better than how Carol does it. In a way that only cinema can do, it presents a story about the things that people do not — can not — say to one another but is instead conveyed by glances, by body language. Performances at once delicate and passionate are made even more effective by how the camera captures them. Read more>>