Tod Haynes 1950s drama, Carol, will have it's UK gala premiere at this years London Film Festival. Having already screened at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, it has been deemed an Oscar favourite.
Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, Cate Blanchette plays Carol Aird, an older woman, hopelessly trapped in a loveless marriage who falls for Therese Belivet (played by Rooney Mara). Mara’s performance won her the best actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May (along with Emmanuelle Bercot for Mon roi), where the film received its world premiere and also won the ‘Queer Palm’.
Carol was developed by Film4 who also co-financed the film and is produced in association with Larkhark Films, for StudioCanal, Hanway Films, Goldcrest, Dirty Films and InFilm. Executive producers are Tessa Ross, Dorothy Berwin, Thorsten Schumacher and Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Danny Perkins and Cate Blanchett, Andrew Upton, Robert Jolliffe, and co-produced by Gwen Bialic.
StudioCanal will release the film in cinemas nationwide on November 27th 2015.
The full LFF programme will be announced on Sept 1 - see below for the official film trailer:
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