coleman spilde’s review published on Letterboxd:
(this is the review I wrote last time but I'm posting it again bc I think it got what I really love about this film!)
To so many straight people, films depicting LGBTQ+ relationships are slow and dull because they fail to realize that so much of our longing is done in silence. Small glances and brief moments mean the world to us and say so much, something straight people will never understand.
Carol is so beautiful and poignant becsuse Todd Haynes knows exactly what these moments are like and how to depict them exactly as we feel them: with quiet grace and anticipation. We feel our hearts pounding and our minds racing in these small moments in time - fractions of instances that to the naked eye of a straight person mean absolutely nothing, but to queer people they mean everything.
Carol is a masterpiece.