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But first, a film released this weekend that's already shaping up to be a contender in awards season. Carol is a love story between two women in early 1950s New York. It'd collected two prizes at Cannes this spring, and was the most nominated film in the independent Spirit Awards announced this week. Adapted by Phyllis Nagy from Patricia Highsmith's second novel, The Price of Salt, the film begins from the perspective of Therese, an aspiring photographer in her early 20s who's working as a temp in the toy section of a department store as Highsmith did after her first novel was published. Into the Christmas rush comes a poised, affluent housewife Carol who makes an impression on the younger woman. Carol completes her purchase, but leaves her gloves behind. Therese arranges to have them sent to her address, and Carol then invites her to lunch. This isn't Haynes' first venture into the lives of 1950s women. In 2003, he was Oscar-nominated for the screenplay of Far From Heaven starring Julianne Moore, his luxurious tribute to Douglas Sirk melodrama. Carol is a cooler proposition all-round. There's much about the agonies and tensions of love, the silences, things that cannot yet be said and tiny shifts in power. Like Highsmith's novel, the film puts us at first in Therese's position, smitten by the gorgeous, assured Carol, desperately searching for signs of response. It's an evocation of the love-struck mind that bears remarkable parallels to the criminal psychologies for which Highsmith's better-known. For Todd Haynes, his fascination with the story was not so much as a same-sex romance as a detailed study of romantic obsession. | 
发表于 2016-12-15 22:36:40