Watch The Trailer For Oscar Hopeful CAROL Starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara

The first trailer has arrived for CAROL.

Directed by Todd Haynes and written by Phyllis Nagy, the movie features Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy and Cory Michael Smith.

A huge hit at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival in May, Rooney shared the Best Actress award with Emmanuelle Bercot (Mon Roi). In his review, Tim Robey (Telegraph) wrote the film is, “a career-best performance from Cate Blanchett.” The Oscar-winning actress “leaps over her own highest standards with a subtlety that’s little short of phenomenal.”

It was announced today that CAROL will have its Gala premiere at the 59th BFI London Film Festival on October 14. and opens in U.S. theaters on November 20; in U.K. cinemas on November 27.

In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s seminal novel The Price of Salt, CAROL follows two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change.

A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol (Cate Blanchett), an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage.

As an immediate connection sparks between them, the innocence of their first encounter dims and their connection deepens.

While Carol breaks free from the confines of marriage, her husband (Kyle Chandler) begins to question her competence as a mother as her involvement with Therese and close relationship with her best friend Abby (Sarah Paulson) come to light.

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