Todd Haynes’ beautifully shot and acted drama about two women who fall in love in 50s New York.
USA-UK 2015
Dir Todd Haynes
With Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Sarah Paulson
119min
Digital
Certificate 15
Adapted from an early Patricia Highsmith novel, Haynes’ characteristically elegant yet acerbic movie charts the intense (and inevitably hesitant and furtive) relationship of a department store salesgirl (Mara) and an older, well-to-do married mother (Blanchett) in 1950s New York. Sumptuously beautiful and blessed with superb performances, it succeeds both as swooning romance and as incisive socio-historical analysis.