Have you seen Carol? If you have seen it, great. If you haven’t, I would like to show you but I’m sort of confined to this desk—just kidding, watch it.
A breathtakingly compelling masterpiece matched with an exquisitely constructed score—we all fell in love with Carol and Therese’s alluring, intimate romantic liaison.
The story follows Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), a young, gawky, beret-wearing girl who falls for a much older, self-assured and elegant soon-to-be divorcee, Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett). The doe-eyed Therese first notices Carol at a department store where Carol shops presents for her daughter. The two somehow find themselves enchantingly entangled with one another. But let’s not talk about the movie (I’ll write about that sooner) instead, we’ll talk about the title: Our little glimpses of Audrey.
What am I talking about? To everybody who has seen the movie, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.
Sure, I’ve heard this before:
“Oh, Rooney Mara, she looks like a female version of Tom Hiddleston”
Because I’ve said it so, myself…to be honest. (Don’t think about it much, darling) So, I kindly ask you to stop giggling and let’s get back to the topic.
I really wasn’t kind of into her when I first heard of this Rooney Mara people were talking about, sure I’ve unconsciously seen some of her movies, I just wasn’t that drawn into her, but just as Therese fell for Carol, it came to me as a surprise.
Therese is fashioned from head to toe reminiscent to Audrey Hepburn and Sabrina’s pre-glamour look. The costumes and the make-up, without a doubt, is exquisitely achieved. It’s as if the whole film came straight out of the 50’s. Cate Blanchett’s regal elegance plus Rooney Mara’s endearingly lovable but somehow gawky poise is picture perfect, but let’s take a look beyond that and ignore Cate Blanchett for a couple of while.
It is when the film provides us with —ethereal glimpses of the much beloved actress that completes the whole package.
It makes you take a closer look. Mara’s resemblance to Hepburn is unmissable. It doesn’t feel like, and surely it doesn’t look like a 2015 movie, everything, from the set, the costumes, to the make up looks convincingly authentic, and it just tugs at my heart how they managed to not only give us a love story to swoon about but little magical glimpses of someone so admired and loved.
It is that prepossessing pair of twinkling eyes that captures us all. A beautiful movie with beautiful people…what more could you ask for?
That’s that. Don’t tell me you can’t see how Miss Belivet resembles Audrey because—it’s gonna get ugly…and we’re not ugly people.
folksat42 
She wishes she looked like Audrey Hepburn.
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