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Todd Haynes’s latest film mistakes aesthetics for meaning.

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

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

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The Brilliant Subversiveness of ‘Carol’s’ Conventional Ending

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Cinematographer Ed Lachman, ASC, On Shooting “Carol”

Carol (2015) Cinematography Analysis

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'Carol,' 'Erin Brockovich' Cinematographer on How He Turns Images Into Ideas

Under the Skin: Analysis of Film Form, Narrative and Ideology

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