Carol: The Price of Love
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Sonja Hammer reviews and talks about Carol, the film that is garnering awards and receiving rapturous acclaim for this interpretation of the Patricia Highsmith story ( published 64 years ago under the name Claire Morgan as The Price of Salt ).
Directed by openly gay director Todd Haynes,Carol is his opus to passion and repression in early 1950’s America.
Patricia Highsmith was in love many times and with many women – “more times than rats have orgasms”
Below: Writer Patricia Highsmith,’ A blonde in a mink coat’ made Highsmith feel “swimmy in the head, near to fainting.”CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY RUTH BERNHARD / PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM / ART RESOURCE
Carol is a Love story between two women in 1950’s America, it’s also about the plight of and the challenges women faced to achieve independence from marriage and the right to love whomever one desires.
Also in this podcast Sonja chats to C.E.O of FILM LONDON and British Film Commission :Adrian Wootton, ( from an interview in 2014), about the life and art of Patricia Highsmith and her Queerness and it’s importance in her writing and in the cinematic versions of her stories.
Phyllis Nagy (screenwriter ) spent 19 years developing the screenplay for Carol.
Carol stars:
- Cate Blanchett as Carol Aird
- Rooney Mara as Therese Belivet
- Sarah Paulson as Abby Gerhard
- Kyle Chandler as Harge Aird
- Jake Lacy as Richard Semco
- Cory Michael Smith as Tommy Tucker
- John Magaro as Dannie McElroy
- Carrie Brownstein as Genevieve Cantrell
- Director: Todd Haynes.
- Soundtrack : Carter Burwell:
- The soundtrack includes the original score by Carter Burwell and additional music performed by The Clovers, Billie Holiday, Georgia Gibbs, Les Paul and Mary Ford, and Jo Stafford. Songs not featured on the soundtrack include “Willow Weep for Me” performed by Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks Orchestra, “A Garden in the Rain” performed by The Four Aces, “Perdido” performed by Woody Herman, “That’s the Chance You Take” by Eddie Fisher, “Slow Poke” by Pee Wee King, and “Why Don’t You Believe Me” performed by Patti Page
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