alternativecandidate: Carol (2015)“Nearly half the book is an epic road trip part escapade and part
alternativecandidate: Carol (2015)“Nearly half the book is an epic road trip part escapade and part radical flight to a new life—one of many aspects supposedly inspiring Nabokov’s Lolita—and here it feels and in fact is is a mere weekend fling, lacking the weight of time and the passionate, conflicted interchanges between the older and younger woman. What with the supreme plushness of the film’s look, its costumes appearing as if never worn before, its glinting images in windows and mirrors, glamour comes very close to trumping these people and their story, such is the unwrinkled quality of each woman unto herself and, most cripplingly, the two together. It is unfair and not right to compare book and movie, but I fall back on it because the movie ultimately seems to give so little of what makes these characters, this situation, and this era so rich.”Daniel Kasman, Notebook -- source link