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'Carol' Trailer: Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara Fall Hard in the Period Romance

Will fall audiences swoon for Carol? Early reports from Cannes and Telluride suggest many critics did, at least. The period romance from director Todd Haynes (I’m Not There, Safe) stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as two women who find themselves stunned to be falling for each other in 1950s New York City. Watch the first U.S. trailer above.

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Based on the novel The Price of Salt from The Talented Mr. Ripley scribe Patricia Highsmith, the drama tells the story of Carol, a striking, restless society wife (Blanchett) and Therese, a young department store clerk (Mara) as they embark on a fraught courtship just as Carol is on the verge of abandoning her crumbling marriage. The trailer — an expansion of the mostly wordless international teaser that came out last month — offers up more details about the plot, including the simmering custody battle over Carol’s young daughter and the impromptu road trip the women take to get out of Dodge. We see more of Kyle Chandler as Carol’s confused and enraged about-to-be-ex and Sarah Paulson as her best friend and confidant, who says to Carol at one point, “Tell me you know what you’re doing.” We also get a tasteful glimpse of the movie’s love scene, the subject of many questions at Cannes, where Mara shared the Best Actress prize. Carol hits theaters on Nov. 20.