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Carol

★★★★☆  film

Carol

Two women fall in love in 1952 by way of gloves, glances, and the freighted silence between words. Todd Haynes photographs longing as though it were weather. Flung out of space, indeed.

what it left me with

The bravest act is not the grand gesture; it is refusing to apologise for whom you love in a world engineered to demand the apology.

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