velvet goldmine

Hollywood is busy adapting Patricia Highsmith’s pre-Lolita 1952 lesbian road trip novel The Price of Salt into a film entitled Carol with Oscar winner Cate Blanchett signed on to play the titular role of a wealthy, older married woman who falls in love with a young woman who works in a department store. Mia Wasikowska, star of Albert Nobbs, The Kids are All Right and Jane Eyre, costars as Therese, the younger woman. If all that weren’t enough to make my lesbian cinephile’s head explode, news broke today that Todd Haynes, the out director of modern queer classics Velvet Goldmine andFar From Heaven (also HBO’s Mildred Pierce), is set to direct, according to IndieWire.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's Rooney Mara will play the role of Therese, a young woman who falls for Cate Blanchett's older woman Carol in the '50s-era lesbian potboiler.