{Cannes IFF 2015: Queer Palm, Best Actress - Rooney Mara}

An erotic drama about the mutual infatuation and love affair between two women in the 1950s. In a department store, the well-to-do and ever-elegant Carol (Cate Blanchett) meets a young shop assistant (Rooney Mara). But Carol is a wife and a mother, and in 1950s America, a relationship between two women is socially unacceptable, and what’s more, against the law. Based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, which she published under a pseudonym, only revealing her authorship nearly 40 years later.