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American film Director Todd Haynes discusses his movie Carol 2015 and pushing back the films release date so it could be shown at the Cannes Film Festival. The tale of a distraught housewife Cate Blanchett in the throws of a failing marriage and embarking on a love affair with Rooney Mara’s character Therese. He reflects on their stunning performances, he goes on to describe Blanchett as getting more intoxicating and interesting the older she gets. Poison 1991 a horror science fiction film , Haynes describes what was happening in New York at the time of the AIDS crisis and its influence in the film, he details his personal activism at the time. Velvet Goldmine 1998, a film about the Seventies Glam Rock scene, a very visual genre that was screaming out to be made into a film, very Bowie and T-Rex inspired. Safe 1995 starring Julianne Moore, Haynes talks of the film using illness as a metaphor to how we relate to the world. He went on to film again with Moore on a film titled Far From Heaven he describes the picture as a very ‘Sirkian melodrama’. I’m not There 2007 six diverse characters portray Bob Dylan in various parts of his life, Cate Blanchett stars. Haynes talks about his admiration for Dylan. He then discusses his love of making period films, they allow him to escape and live in another time period. Although set in the 1950’s Carol was a film where he didn’t focus on the era, he was more focused on the love story, a love so deep and so well described by the author Patricia Highsmith in her book ‘The Price of Salt’ of which the film was based.

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