Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Carol review: 'Cate Blanchett will slay you'


Carol is gorgeous, gently groundbreaking, and might be the saddest thing you’ll ever see.

See also...

Behind Carol: the photographers who influenced Todd Haynes’ award-winning film

The Brilliant Subversiveness of ‘Carol’s’ Conventional Ending

Carol (Haynes, 2015)

Cinematographer Edward Lachman on ‘Carol’ as a Stylistic Foil to ‘Far From Heaven’

Cinematographer Ed Lachman, ASC, On Shooting “Carol”

Surface Matters

Carol (2015) Cinematography Analysis

Explore...

Carol (2015) Behind the Scenes - Part 1/2

Under the Skin - The Alien Gaze

Under the Skin - Film Form, Narrative and Ideology

Carol (2015) Behind the Scenes - Part 2/2

Edward Lachman Shares His Secrets For Shooting Todd Haynes’ ‘Carol’

Under the Skin - audiovisual alienation

Carol Featurette - Screenplay (2015) - Cate Blanchette, Rooney Mara Drama HD

Fallen Angels: A Wong Kar Wai Masterpiece

How to write scene transitions

Carol Featurette - Costume Design (2015) - Cate Blanchett, Kyle Chandler Drama HD

New...

The Misleading Ending of Whiplash

Summer 2026 Examinations

Whiplash Final Scene - Andrew Neyman's Performance

Duke of Edinburgh Portal

Spring Term Sports Club

Parents Evening :: Year 13

Head of Department - History

January 2026 Examinations

Discover...

Aesthetics Examinations GCE ZEN Film Studies Carol Coursework A Level Clubs And Activities Alamanc january Working Term Dates BFI Physical Education Duke Of Edinburgh Under The Skin Film4 Captain Fantastic Calendar Yimou Hitchcock

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...