The love between two women in “Carol” shakes Cannes – The Universe

A love story between two women in the 50s, with the always sublime Cate Blanchett in “Carol” by Todd Haynes, came as a breath of fresh air at Cannes, with options for an award.

Carol Aird (Blanchett), a woman married to a banker in New York in the postwar years, trapped in an unhappy marriage bourgeois, is one day at a saleswoman, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) in a department store and the crush arises.

Carol had had a more or less ephemeral flirtation with a childhood friend to try to escape his suffocating gilded cage, but Therese, a young twentysomething who likes photography but unable to know what you really want to make your life and dissatisfied with their conventional boyfriend and a dull existence, this relationship opens up a new world.

Adapted from the second eponymous autobiographical novel by Patricia Highsmith, published in 1952 under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, “Carol is a story of unexpected love between two women of different ages and social classes,” says director Todd Haynes, who worked with the Australian actress, in “I’m Not There “a film about the life of Bob Dylan.

The two women quickly encounter with the reigning convention in a fresh out of World War II, which does not allow society to get out of the fold, and in society where the distinguished and always elegant Carol, divorcing her wealthy husband, Harge (Kyle Chandler) lives.

Considered one sick, Carol, accused of “immorality”, which is the loss of custody of her daughter, consent to a “cure” his homosexuality with a specialist and stops seeing her young lover for a while, before deciding that prefers to live his life.

challenge of playing a role of Highsmith novel is that it is “as mysterious and ambiguous,” said Cate Blanchett in the press conference that followed the screening of the film.

The character of “Carol is a figment of Therese, “but the fine pen writer, Phyllis Nagy,” invented a whole world to Carol, “turning his role in a” gift “admitted Australian actress, one of the strongest candidates to take next May 24 one of the few awards that are missing in his already bulging resume, in which which two Oscars for “Blue Jasmine” and “The Aviator”.

Solo performance

The Australian actress, mother of four children (the smaller the recently adopted), said that the erotic scene starring with her young lover “was like any other” and was neither more or less difficult than with a man.

For Blanchett, “the interesting thing about playing a role as Carol is that sexuality is a private matter”, and not as now, that “it seems if you’re gay, You have to talk about it all the time, “said the actress, who in the last week staged a small stir to ensure in an interview that he had” numerous “relationships with women , although in Cannes stated that if the question is “whether I had sex, the answer is no.” (I)