MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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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