Cate Blanchett, Mia Wasikowska Cast In Adaptation Of Highsmith’s ‘Carol’: Cannes
Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska are heading the cast of the new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Carol (aka The Price of Salt). It’s directed by John Crowley (Intermission, Boy A) and Phyllis Nagy (Mrs Harris) has written the adaptation based on the novella by Highsmith (Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr Ripley). The film will be produced by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley from Number 9 Films, and co-developed and co-financed by Film4. Filming starts February 2013 in London and New York. Carol is about the complex relationship between two very different women in 1950s New York. One, a girl in her 20s working in a department store who dreams of a more fulfilling life, and the other, a wife trapped in a loveless, moneyed marriage. HanWay will be handling international sales at Cannes.
I love that these two are working together. Perfect match.
Mia’s so overrated. Such bland acting and limited range.
Between Mia, Jessica Chastain, and Chloe Moretz… I don’t think there has been a movie made in the last three years that at least on of them wasn’t in.
Actually, having read the book, i can’t see where the drama is here. A lesbian love story was groundbreaking in 1952 when the book was published but these days has become a soap opera staple. The two women meet up, drive around the Midwest, are told by a private investigator that he knows what they’re up to, and, er, that’s about it.
Maybe they’ll add a car chase which ends with the lovers driving off a cliff?
I predict that a grand total of six people will go see this movie in the theater, but of course you can adjust this figure up exponentially for the DVD if there is a decent amount of naked female flesh shown.
Same as it ever was.
-Bluto
Not sure I see what’s with the negativity about this movie. This sounds more eventful than Brokeback Mountain and there haven’t been any mainstream lesbian films outside of The Kids Are All Right as of late (and that’s hardly a proper lesbian movie, IMO).