Director : Todd Haynes
Running Time : 119 mins
In 1950s New York, twenty-something shop worker Therese Belivet (Mara) befriends forty-something mother and wife Carol Aird (Blanchett). The friendship between the two soon develops into something more, but Carol’s husband Harge (Chandler) uses the love affair to further his fight for custody of his daughter as he and his wife begin a bitter divorce proceeding.
This movie is definitely one that speaks for a time. The main plot is that gay women were considered mentally deficient and not suitable to raise children. Obviously this is a belief that has changed in the last sixty years, but it comes across as a powerful message in this movie which, on the whole, does a good job of sending the message across. What does spoil it a little – though some may disagree – is the unnecessary use of nudity which, because it was only Mara we see naked, beggars the question of why the director made the decision to have nudity if Blanchett didn’t want to do it. Why not be tactful instead of having the scene jar with the viewers?
You’ll like this if you liked : Passion
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