Post by IsabelaRooney on Nov 13, 2017 20:29:05 GMT
All 8 Todd Haynes Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
3. Carol (2015)
Set in a post-war early-50s New York, Carol is an elegant and restrained lesbian love story for the ages. Adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s (Strangers on a Train) 1952 novel, The Price of Salt, and functioning as a sort of companion piece to director Todd Haynes 2002 film, Far From Heaven, it stars Cate Blanchett is the titular Carol Aird, a wealthy yet long suffering housewife, and she exhibits all the glamor, grace, and gravitation of a scorching screen-siren of the calibre of Marlene Dietrich or Greta Garbo. And then there’s Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), timid and tenderhearted, a tad thin skinned, but the two of them, once smitten and entwined, are societal outcasts, vulnerable to assail and misunderstanding.
Haynes is stylish as ever, here tenderly tapping into the Old Hollywood éclat, making a postmodern melodrama that is more than pastiche and rich in period detail and decorum. An elegant, and poignant film, Carol ranks with Haynes finest, an intoxicating, restrained, and vibrant story of love and lament. It’s an absolute scorcher.
3. Carol (2015)
Set in a post-war early-50s New York, Carol is an elegant and restrained lesbian love story for the ages. Adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s (Strangers on a Train) 1952 novel, The Price of Salt, and functioning as a sort of companion piece to director Todd Haynes 2002 film, Far From Heaven, it stars Cate Blanchett is the titular Carol Aird, a wealthy yet long suffering housewife, and she exhibits all the glamor, grace, and gravitation of a scorching screen-siren of the calibre of Marlene Dietrich or Greta Garbo. And then there’s Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), timid and tenderhearted, a tad thin skinned, but the two of them, once smitten and entwined, are societal outcasts, vulnerable to assail and misunderstanding.
Haynes is stylish as ever, here tenderly tapping into the Old Hollywood éclat, making a postmodern melodrama that is more than pastiche and rich in period detail and decorum. An elegant, and poignant film, Carol ranks with Haynes finest, an intoxicating, restrained, and vibrant story of love and lament. It’s an absolute scorcher.
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and still cute somehow 
