I wanted to beat it with a stick and cry, ‘Get on with it!’: Carol reviewed

Carol

15, Nationwide

Carol is an easy film to admire — so beautiful to look at; entirely exquisite — but such a hard film to feel anything for. Based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 lesbian novel The Price of Salt, this is a love story that, here, doesn’t venture below the waist, literally, emotionally or metaphorically.

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I wanted to beat it with a stick and cry, ‘Get on with it!’: Carol reviewed

Previously I had thought you can’t have too much of Cate Blanchett, but there is a heck of a lot of her here - and she’s mostly stagey and mannered

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