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PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
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).
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