Overrated and overhyped

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

This is my favorite queer romance movie. The acting was amazing; I love both Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. They both were able to portray their characters in such a raw, authentic, beautiful way. You could tell that they both understood the story and their characters. The relationship between the two women was so tender and honest. Even though it is a story about two women falling in love, I do not think you need to be queer to like this movie. I also appreciated how subtle the film is. There is so much meaning in just a look or a touch. I thought it was even more meaningful than there being tons of dialogue because at that time there wasn't as much language around being LGBTQ+ like there is now. It made the dialogue all the more meaningful when they did speak. It really did feel like this movie could have been shot in the 1950's. I loved the cinematography and that they shot on real film. It really adds to the beauty and artistic nature of the film. I admire that how they filmed it made it so that you could see both of the characters points of view. I think this was very important so that you connect to both of the characters. In the novel by Patricia Highsmith called, A Price of Salt, it's all from Therese's point of view. Carol ends up being more of an object that Therese is infatuated with, rather than a real person. I enjoyed that they changed that; I think it makes the relationship and characters more authentic. I also loved that it ended on an optimistic note and that none of the queer characters were killed or portrayed as crazy. I would say that it's definitely a movie that you kind of have to understand how women and LGBTQ+ people were treated in the 1950's, otherwise you may not understand the characters or the story as deeply. It's also not a film for people who don't like subtly or who need a fast pace, action movie. This is not going to be that. I could say a lot about this film, but I think you should just give it a try. I'd certainly recommend it. You can watch it on Netflix or rent/buy it on Amazon.

The production design on this is beautiful. Even in its less glamorous scenes, it oozes 50s American charm. It's a fake world and a perfect setting for this story, an exercise in social control bristling with tense expectation and makes for a perfect setting for this love story. It's almost dreamlike, both Blanchett and Mara effortlessly floating from scene to scene. Mara, innocent, playful. Blanchett, cold, mysterious. Dialogue delivered calmly, the camera allowed to linger and drift. Music poignant, haunting. It's not all plain sailing of course, far from it, but the ups and downs are timed perfectly, the editor (Affonso Gonçalves) doing his work perfectly. In fact the pacing of the whole thing is pretty amazing. It's very much a film of twos. Two people, two worlds, light and dark. Fantastic!

For a film about the "love that dare not speak its name" it has a deadened, passionless air to it.I never bought the love/emotion/desperation between Therese and Carol, played by Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett. From the first scene in the department store where Therese worked, I viewed Carol's interest as repulsively predatory and it would have been if the part of Carol was played by a middle aged man.Down to the "erotic" scene in the hotel, which again was lifeless and uninspiring and well, boring, the whole film had a coldness to it, down to the limp dry hair of the main characters: wigs, I would guess.Carol never comes across as a concerned mother, yes she grabs and hugs her kid a lot but does not engage in any meaningful way with her.The cinematography was well done, the 50s scenes for the most part believable.But for a film about passion and undying love, no, this didn't work for me.3 out of 10.

What I loved most about this film, except its unique protagonists, Cate Blanchett, who plays a powerful woman living the "perfect life" in New York having a child and a successful husband and Rooney Mara, an Audrey Hepburn figure, elegant, innocent and brave, ready to fall in love even if it 'll cost her a lot, is the unique, magnificent photography. The colors, the textures, clothing, everything is excellent, depicting this golden era of New York Times and urban life in New York. I also liked the ending. Director gives us these intense gazes from both sides of the two women and finally, in a Hollywood production, we are not sure of the exact ending of their last meeting together.