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• Drama
• Romance

• 2015
• Todd Haynes
• 113 mins
• 15

Summary

Romantic drama based on Patricia Highsmith's novel The Price of Salt, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, In 1950s Manhattan, a naive shop girl has her life turned upside down when she falls for an older, married woman.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Alan Jones

Patricia Highsmith's controversial, keynote lesbian novel The Price of Salt is brought lovingly to the screen by director Todd Haynes, in resplendent Far from Heaven fashion. Trapped in a marriage of convenience, uptown, worldly Carol (Cate Blanchett) begins an affair with naive, besotted shop girl Therese (Rooney Mara). But this is early 1950s Manhattan and when Carol's husband threatens her with scandal, the women embark on a road trip towards self-discovery and inalienable truths. No one is better at nuanced melodrama in the classic Hollywood style than Haynes, and with two high-calibre leading ladies exercising coiffed poise, era-sensitive intelligence and sophistication in every fabulous-looking frame, this exquisite romance is both chic and chilly in correct proportion before it explodes in tear-jerking emotional transparency. A stunning masterpiece, front-loaded with atmospheric mood and poignant tenderness.

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7.3/10

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Cast

rolenameCarol AirdCate BlanchettTherese BelivetRooney MaraAbby GerhardSarah PaulsonRichardJake LacyDannieJohn MagaroTommyCory Michael SmithGenevieve CantrellCarrie BrownsteinFred HaymesKevin CrowleyPhil McElroyNik PajicHarge AirdKyle Chandler

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rolenameDirectorTodd Haynes

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Theatrical distributor

Studio Canal

Released on

2015-11-27

Languages

English

Guidance

Swearing, sex scenes.

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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