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Mario's rating: 4/5 (space angels)

(Breaking) The Birdcage: Two lovers look into the lethal abyss and leap anyway; willingly, blissfully, tragically, beautifully.

👍 Road trips: 'Carol' was voted best LGBTQ+ Film of All Time by the British Film Institute in 2016. Their survey spanned 84 years of cinema and 12 countries.

👎 Morality clauses: The film was nominated for six Oscars in 2016, but won none of them. Cate Blanchett lost the Best Actress award to Brie Larson ('Room'), and Rooney Mara lost Best Supporting Actress to Alicia Vikander ('The Danish Girl'). And was Mara really a supporting actress if she's in 60% of the film, and Blanchett was in 54%?...

📽️ Favourite scene: The final scene in the restaurant, and one of cinema's best unspoken movie moments.

🥇 Best quote:
CAROL: "There was a time when I would have done almost anything. I would have locked myself away to keep my child with me. But what use am I to her, to us, if I'm living against my own grain?"

🙁 Best depressing quote:
CAROL: "Please don't be angry when I tell you that you seek resolutions and explanations because you're young. But you will understand this one day. And when it happens, I want you to imagine me there to greet you, our lives stretched out ahead of us, a perpetual sunrise. But until then, there must be no contact between us. Please believe that I would do anything to see you happy. So, I do the only thing I can... I release you."





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