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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Why this pick
Like Carol, it builds desire through glances, restraint, and exquisite period detail, letting an illicit romance gather emotional force in images as much as dialogue.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2015 1h 58m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Carol
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Desert Hearts
Why this pick
A foundational, tender period love story whose measured awakening between two women echoes Carol’s emotional delicacy and the liberating pull of unexpected intimacy.
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Tell It to the Bees
Why this pick
This 1950s British drama pairs a forbidden relationship with soft-focus nostalgia and quiet domestic tension, making it a natural fit for Carol’s romantic melancholy.
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Aimee & Jaguar
Why this pick
Set amid wartime Berlin, it offers a more urgent but similarly immersive period romance, centred on two women discovering a sustaining intimacy under immense social pressure.
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The Wailing
Why this pick
For Carol’s sensual precision and shifting power between women, this lavishly designed period thriller offers an intensified, more intricately plotted variation on forbidden desire.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Cate Blanchett
Carol Aird
Rooney Mara
Therese Belivet
Sarah Paulson
Abby Gerhard
Jake Lacy
Richard Semco
John Magaro
Dannie McElroy
Cory Michael Smith
Tommy Tucker
Carrie Brownstein
Genevieve Cantrell
Kevin Crowley
Fred Haymes