Who says they don’t make ’em like they used to? “Carousel,” starring Chris Pine and Jenny Slate in a painfully languid neorealist drama of lonely-hearts romance (it’s about love, but more than that it’s all about the agony), is the sort of Sundance movie you might have encountered in the late ’90s — and by that, I’m not suggesting that it would have been a Sundance hit, subject to late-night bidding wars. I mean that it would have been a “sensitive” Sundance bubble movie that got a bit of buzz and then proceeded to go nowhere in the real world. And that would have been 30 years ago!
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