In Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt, Therese is working in a department store during the Christmas shopping season. One day, a beautiful older woman comes over to her counter and buys a doll. As the purchase is a C.O.D. order, Therese makes a mental note of the customer’s address. She is intrigued and drawn to the woman. Although young, inexperienced and shy, she writes a note to the customer, Carol, and is elated and surprised when Carol invites her to meet.
Therese realizes she has strong feelings for Carol, but is unsure of what they represent. Carol, in the process of a bitter separation and divorce, is also quite lonely. Soon the two women begin spending a great deal of time together. Before long, they are madly and hopelessly in love. The path is not easy for them, however. Carol also has a child and a very suspicious husband, dangerous ground for the lovers. When the women leave New York and travel west together, they discover the choices they’ve made to be together will have lasting effects on both their lives.
👭📕Considered to be the first lesbian pulp novel to break the pulp publishing industry-enforced pattern of tragic consequences for its lesbian heroines, The Price of Salt was written under the pseudonym of Claire Morgan by Patricia Highsmith – the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley.📕👭As one reviewer wrote in 1952, “Claire Morgan is completely natural. She has a story to tell and she tells it with an almost conversational ease. Her people are neither degenerate monsters nor fragile victims of the social order. They must—and do—pay a price for thinking, feeling and loving ‘differently,’ but they are courageous and true to themselves throughout.”
In 1950s New York, two women, one older and one younger, fall in love.
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Release Time: 118 minutes
Cast:
Cate Blanchett as Carol Aird
Rooney Mara as Therese Belivet
Sarah Paulson as Abby Gerhard
Jake Lacy as Richard Semco
Kyle Chandler as Harge Aird
John Magaro as Dannie McElroy
Cory Michael Smith as Tommy Tucker
Carrie Brownstein as Genevieve Cantrell
Kevin Crowley as Fred Haymes
Nik Pajic as Phil McElroy
Awards:
2016 Academy Awards
Best Actress - Cate Blanchett - Nominated
Best Supporting Actress - Rooney Mara - Nominated
Best Cinematography - Edward Lachman - Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay - Phyllis Nagy - Nominated
Best Original Score - Carter Burwell - Nominated
Best Costume Design - Sandy Powell - Nominated
2016 Golden Globes
Best Motion Picture--Drama - Carol - Nominated
Best Director - Todd Haynes - Nominated
Best Actress in a Motion Picture--Drama - Cate Blanchett - Nominated
Best Actress in a Motion Picture--Drama - Rooney Mara - Nominated
Best Original Score - Carter Burwell - Nominated
2016 BAFTAs
Best Leading Actress - Cate Blanchett - Nominee
Best Supporting Actress - Rooney Mara - Nominee
Best Adapted Screenplay - Phyllis Nagy - Nominee
Best Cinematography - Edward Lachman - Nominee
Best Production Design - Judy Becker , Heather Loeffler - Nominee
Best Costume Design - Sandy Powell - Nominee
Best Makeup and Hair - Jerry DeCarlo , Patricia Regan - Nominee
Best Film - Elizabeth Karlsen , Christine Vachon , Stephen Woolley - Nominee
David Lean Award for Direction - Todd Haynes - Nominee
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Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer, most widely known for her psychological thrillers, which led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. In addition to her acclaimed series about murderer Tom Ripley, she wrote many short stories, often macabre, satirical or tinged with black humor. Although she wrote specifically in the genre of crime fiction, her books have been lauded by various writers and critics as being artistic and thoughtful enough to rival mainstream literature. Michael Dirda observed, "Europeans honored her as a psychological novelist, part of an existentialist tradition represented by her own favorite writers, in particular Dostoevsky, Conrad, Kafka, Gide, and Camus."
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