Cate Blanchett on Cannes Lesbian Drama 'Carol': "It's Not 'Blue Is the Warmest Color'"

Cate Blanchett doubted that Too Haynes' adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's landmark lesbian novella "The Price of Salt" would ever hit theaters. Film4 acquired rights way back in 2000, and several directors fell on and off the project. But finally after wrapping last May and doing the Weinstein dance, Haynes' version of Phyllis Nagy's scripted drama bows at Cannes on May 17. "It was so hard," Blanchett told Variety. "Midrange films with women at the center are tricky to finance. There are a lot of people laboring under the misapprehension that people don’t want to see them, which isn’t true... I think there’s been a critical mass of women who have reached a...

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