Todd Haynes isn’t a director typically associated with the family film genre, but he does well with “Wonderstruck,” bringing the same eye for impeccable period detail that made films like “Carol” and “Far From Heaven” such sumptuous pleasures. “Wonderstruck” contains two separate storylines told through two distinct styles. The first is set in 1927, and […]
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Film review: “Carol”
Director Todd Haynes knows his way around a melodrama, having worked within the confines of the genre in HBO’s “Mildred Pierce” miniseries as well as his exquisite Douglas Sirk pastiche, “Far From Heaven.” Haynes has a knack for recreating period dramas in a way that feels at once thoroughly modern and also like they might […]
