{"id":110319,"date":"2015-11-20T08:59:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=110319"},"modified":"2022-09-30T12:54:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:54:58","slug":"carol-2015-d-todd-haynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=110319","title":{"rendered":"Review: Carol<\/i> (2015); d. Todd Haynes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI love Todd Haynes’ work and Carol<\/i> is very very good. One of the most beautiful-looking films of the year. Painful and poignant. Had one issue with it, but overall, it’s gorgeous and profound. <\/p>\n

Based on the novel The Price of Salt<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, by the great Patricia Highsmith (she who gave us Tom Ripley), Carol<\/i> tells the story of a romance between a shopgirl and a housewife in 1950 when such a thing was forbidden. Highsmith based this on a real experience she had: she, too, worked behind a toy counter and met an elegant woman, and fell passionately in love with her – love at first sight. But in real life: the interaction at the counter was their ONLY interaction. It never went further than that and Highsmith never saw her again. Highsmith once drove out to New Jersey to stalk the woman’s house – Highsmith was a brilliant and compulsive stalker. Like all great artists, Highsmith took her fantasy of what MIGHT have happened with that woman (in a perfect world, she would have gotten to at least sleep with that gorgeous creature) and then spun it out into a novel. The novel is an act of wish-fulfillment. If you haven’t read The Price of Salt<\/i>, I highly recommend it! <\/p>\n

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