Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #11. Todd Haynes’ Carol

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Carol

Director: Todd Haynes
Writer: Phyllis Nagy
Producers: Elizabeth Karlsen, Tessa Ross, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley
U.S. Distributor: The Weinstein Co.
Cast: Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchet, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler

If there is one time period that Todd Haynes owns…it’s in the neighborhood of the America 1950s. Far From Heaven and Mildred Pierce account for this. This Oscar-pegged foursome of Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchet, Sarah Paulson and Kyle Chandler should make Julianne Moore jealous.

Gist: Based on Patricia Highsmith’s “The Price of Salt”, this chronicles the burgeoning and tempestuous relationship between two very different women in 1950s NYC. Mara will play a 20-something clerk working in a department store and dreaming of a better life who falls for an older, married woman (Blanchett) who is essentially a trapped wife in a dead marriage who’s desperate to leave but also fears losing her daughter if she does. Chandler plays Harge, the Blanchett character’s jealous husband.

Release Date: Mid-march filming is scheduled, meaning an end of year showing is possible. Depends on the Weinstein strategy.

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Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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