Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara fall madly in love in the first trailer released for the film "Carol," based on Patricia Highsmith's landmark 1952 lesbian-romance "The Price of Salt," touted as the novel of a love society forbids.
A new teaser trailer for Todd Haynes' "Carol" highlights the film's 1950s-set romance through the beauty of music. The film stars Oscar winner Blanchett for the titular role as a married woman stuck in a loveless marriage with "Friday Night Lights" actor Kyle Chandler. She falls in love with a 20 year old department store clerk, played by Mara (The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).
Their characters exchange names at the beginning of the clip, but otherwise, the only sound that can be heard is a rendition of "My Foolish Heart" over scenes from the pair's deepening relationship.
The '50s New York set romance movie is based on Patricia Highsmith's novel "The Price of Salt," which was published in 1952. The film debuted in May to universal praise at the Cannes Film Festival winning the coveted 2015 Queer Palm award and where the jury awarded Mara's quieter performance as best actress. It has been getting some amazing reviews and Oscar buzz since.
Both the film and novel follow Carol, a Manhattan socialite who is trapped in a loveless marriage of convenience, and Therese (Kate), a working class employee at a department store who forever changed her life. The drama will screen at the BFI London Film Festival on October 14. The director and stars, Blanchett and Mara, will be in attendance for the festival's American Express Gala, which also serves as the film's U.K. premiere.
London Film Festival director Clare Stewart called the film a deeply romantic, emotionally honest love story. She said that it is cinema at its most intoxicating and immaculate.
Along with the two leads, "Carol" will also star Kyle Chandler, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy, Cory Michael Smith, Carrie Brownstein and John Magaro. Screenwriter Phyllis Nagy wrote the book-to-film adaptation.
The Weinstein Co. will release "Carol" in the U.S. on November 20, while Studiocanal will debut it a week later in the U.K.
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