Patricia Highsmiths story of sexual obsessionsoon to be a major motion picture.In Carol, two women from different backgroundsone a department store clerk who dreams of a better life, one who is wealthy and marriedstrike up a love affair with each other in 1950s New York. Cate Blanchett, star of such films as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, plays the titular housewife, Carol, while Rooney Mara of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is Therese, who immediately falls for the striking older woman. With a story based on Highsmiths 1952 noveloriginally titled The Price of Salt, which she published under the pseudonym Claire MorganCarol is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Todd Haynes director of Im Not There, Far from Heaven, which was nominated for four Oscars, and Velvet Goldmine and written by Phyllis Nagy currently writing the screenplay for Kate Atkinsons Case Histories.
