{"id":1911,"date":"2015-05-25T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2015-05-25T08:55:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T13:55:48","slug":"carol-wins-queer-palm-at-caanes-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1911","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Carol&#8221; wins Queer Palm at Caanes Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara-helmed?<em>Carol?<\/em>has won the 2015 Queer Palm at the Caanes Film Festival. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/cate-blanchett-lesbian-love-story-carol-wins-queer-palm-cannes240515\">Via Gay Star News:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Directed by Todd Haynes, &#8216;Carol&#8217; is adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel (&#8216;The Price of Salt&#8217;) that tells the story of two women who fall in love in 1950s New York at a time when homosexuality was criminalized.<\/p>\n<p>Blanchett plays Carol, a wealthy married woman who falls in love with an ambitious shopgirl played by Mara.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The film is the second film from the US and the UK to win the award. The Queer Palm is an independent?sponsored prize given to the best LGBT-themed film submitted to the Caanes Film Festival. It was first awarded in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara-helmed?Carol?has won the 2015 Queer Palm at the Caanes Film Festival. Via Gay Star News: Directed by Todd Haynes, &#8216;Carol&#8217; is adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel (&#8216;The Price of Salt&#8217;) that tells the story of two women who fall in love in 1950s New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}