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“Carol” scores big with the New York Film Critics Circle

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It seems like every single day now there’s a new major precursor announcement, doesn’t it? Yesterday, the New York Film Critics Circle announced their awards for 2015, and Carol was the biggest winner of them all. It managed to take a large number of awards from the NYFCC, perhaps to the surprise of some. Personally, I wasn’t shocked, but I do think that they did manage to throw some curveballs our way. There’s been an infusion of younger critics into the group of late, so some may say that the potentially bolder choices are a credit to them. I’m not sure that’s the case this year, but it could certainly be the case in the future. However you slice it though, this was a good precursor for Carol. Todd Haynes’ film got a definite boost, no question there. Once again, a primer on Carol. The film is a high profile adaptation a Patricia Highsmith novel called The Price of Salt and concerns the taboo relationship between two women in 1950’s New York City. One is young department store clerk Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), while the other is an older married woman named Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett). What starts as a friendship of sorts (though Carol seems to clearly be interested in more, with Therese more than just along for the ride) slowly blooms into something more, even if they can’t explicitly speak it out loud. From there, it’s a choice of whether or not to risk everything for love in a time where this was not acceptable behavior. The decisions that follow are not what you’d expect, and that’s putting it mildly. Haynes directs from a Phyllis Nagy screenplay, with the cast in addition to Blanchett and Mara including Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, John Magaro, and Sarah Paulson, among others. The score is by Carter Burwell, while the cinematography comes from Edward Lachman, who was honored by NYFCC, as you’ll see below. Carol took home Best Picture, Best Director (for Haynes), Best Screenplay (which is Nagy’s, even if not everyone has credited her), and Best Cinematography (for the aforementioned Lachman). The only title that the NYFCC gave multiple awards to (though ironically not to any of its cast members, as you’ll see below), it easily led the field, showing a clear case of this group loving the movie. This does also establish it as one of the films given a helping hand [...]

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