Latest editorial
EWAN CAMERON witnesses a political farce that lacks a clear message
Film Round-Up
EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
Carol (15)
Directed by Todd Haynes
4/5
THIS stylish adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s seminal novel The Price of Salt memorably captures the social climate of the 1950s in its focus on gay love in the post-war US.
Todd Haynes’s film, set in New York, centres on young shop assistant Therese (Rooney Mara) who’s dreaming of a better life. She falls for an older sophisticated married woman Carol (Cate Blanchett) who’s in the midst of divorcing her husband (Kyle Chandler).
Similar stories
MICHAL BONCZA, FIONA O’CONNOR, JAMES WALSH and ANGUS REID review Atlas of Disappearance, Love Me Tender, Bouchra, and This Tempting Madness
A six minute animation that conveys the horror of atomic war A Short Vision, made in 1956, is more effective than any drama, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime