Hartismere School

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

Home Login

The Brilliant Subversiveness of ‘Carol’s’ Conventional Ending


Spoiler alert: this piece is about the end of Carol. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, you might want to hold off on reading this piece until you have and take a look at our review.

See also...

Surface Matters

Cinematographer Ed Lachman, ASC, On Shooting “Carol”

Carol (Haynes, 2015)

Carol (2015) Cinematography Analysis

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

Carol review: 'Cate Blanchett will slay you'

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

Explore...

House of Flying Daggers - mise-en-scene

The Absent Gaze: Navigating Feminist Cinematography on Notebook

Cinematographer Ed Lachman, ASC, on Carol

Review: ‘Carol’ Explores the Sweet Science of Magnetism

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

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

Under the Skin - Sound

Under the Skin - audiovisual alienation

Under the Skin - BFI review

Carol Interview Special | Film4 | Interview

New...

Understanding Fallen Angels - To be a Lost Soul

The Lost Boys - the vampires attack

Superimposition in film

Online safety newsletters

School Policies

Parents Evening :: Year 9

The importance of scene transitions

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

Discover...

Carol Aesthetics Examinations GCE ZEN Film Studies Evening Films Hitchcock Week Oscars Documentary Coursework The Lost Boys MUBI Old Hollywood NEA Under The Skin Silent Film BFI Forms Notices

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 CCBot/2.0 (https://commoncrawl.org/faq/). 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...