Trailer for Patricia Highsmith movie about troubled 1950s lesbian love affair

Mark Frauenfelder 9:47 am Tue Aug 18, 2015

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Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara star in Carol, a new movie based on Patricia Highsmith's novel, The Price of Salt. Published in 1952 under the pen name Claire Morgan, it's about a troubled love affair between a rich bored housewife and a poor frustrated department store shopgirl. Some critics believe Nabokov borrowed liberally from The Price of Salt in writing Lolita.

The late Patricia Highsmith is the author of Strangers on a Train and the Talented Mr. Ripley (read my review here), both of which were adapted into excellent movies, so I have high hopes for Carol.

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