Finally, there's a booklet featuring an informative essay by renowned film scholar Ruby B. Rich on the film's placement within the pantheon of lesbian love stories. (slantmagazine.com)
Part revisionist melodrama and postmodernist Douglas Sirk - style weepie, Carol is adapted by Phyllis Nagy (Mrs. Harris) from Patricia Highsmith's (Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley) 1952 pulp novel, The Price of Salt, itself a decidedly outré lesbian love story and the only non-crime novel she ever penned. (tasteofcinema.com)
Abdellatif Kechiche's passionate lesbian love story is a screen romance that's built for the long - haul. (lwlies.com)