Carol: Book vs. Movie
Todd Haynes's 2015 film Carol adapts Patricia Highsmith's book The Price of Salt, also published as Carol. Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara play two women whose relationship faces the social pressures of 1950s America.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Patricia Highsmith
- Year
- 1952
- Pages
- 256Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 10 hr 37 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Cassandra Campbell
Therese Belivet dreams of designing stage sets but spends her days working in a New York department store. Meeting Carol Aird, an older customer separating from her husband, draws her into a relationship unlike anything she has known. A journey together offers freedom from their ordinary lives, but Carol's custody dispute makes their growing attachment vulnerable to scrutiny and coercion.
- Director
- Todd Haynes
- Writer
- Patricia Highsmith, Phyllis Nagy
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 1 hr 58 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler
- Genre
- Christmas, Drama, lesbian-related, LGBTQ-related, melodrama, Romance
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Therese, a department-store assistant who hopes to become a photographer, is drawn to Carol, an elegant customer navigating a difficult separation. Their meetings become a road trip and a relationship neither can easily acknowledge in 1950s America. Carol's husband turns the possibility of losing their daughter into a threat against the life she wants.
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