thequietworld: “…shooting through glass, and windows, and reflections kept making you t

thequietworld:

“…shooting through glass, and windows, and reflections kept making you think about the act of lookingandbeing looked at…you feel the choice of an optical experience.” - Todd Haynes

“Carol, the very best film of the year (if not the decade), is obsessed with the visibility of women, the gazes they cast, and the gazes cast upon them. In Todd Haynes’ unspeakably beautiful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s semi-autobiographical novel about a 1950s Manhattan shopgirl (Rooney Mara) who is thunderstruck by a mutual infatuation with a well-to-do housewife (Cate Blanchett), the film illustrates—among other things—how falling in love is an act of looking, while being in love is an act of seeing.” - David Ehrlich