Can you capture Cate Blanchett as Carol? | Little White Lies

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Can you cap­ture Cate Blanchett as Carol?

17 Nov 2015

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A woman with blonde curly hair wearing a grey jacket and red scarf, looking directly at the camera with a serious expression.
A woman with blonde curly hair wearing a grey jacket and red scarf, looking directly at the camera with a serious expression.
Take part in our cre­ative brief as inspired by Todd Haynes’ roman­tic masterpiece.

Todd Haynes’ Car­ol is an expres­sion of love. It’s about two peo­ple defin­ing their feel­ings about one anoth­er, but as a film, it’s a roman­tic gift to audi­ences from its cre­ator. Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara play star-crossed lovers whose eyes lock across a depart­ment store shop floor and spend the remain­der of the film untan­gling the com­plex emo­tions they feel for one another.

To cel­e­brate the cin­e­ma release of Car­ol on Fri­day 27 Novem­ber, we’ve come up with a new cre­ative brief in part­ner­ship with StudioCanal.

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Two women and a man seated at a table, engaged in conversation. The women appear to be discussing something intently, with one woman's hand raised to her face in a pensive gesture. The setting is a cosy, old-fashioned room with floral wallpaper in the background.

We want you to send us a black-and-white sketch of Cate Blanchett as Car­ol in any style and using any medi­um of your choos­ing – it could be a pen­cil draw­ing that resem­bles a vin­tage pho­to­graph or a felt-tip por­trait inspired by an adver­tise­ment dis­play in a 1950s depart­ment store.

The win­ner will be announced on Mon­day 30 Novem­ber. The prize is an offi­cial Car­ol poster signed by Todd Haynes, a framed print of the win­ning art­work, a copy of Patri­cia Highsmith’s book on which the film is based, a phys­i­cal copy of the film’s sound­track as scored by Carter Bur­well, plus a year’s sub­scrip­tion to Lit­tle White Lies.

Email your entry to us under the sub­ject line ​‘Car­ol cre­ative brief’ at competitions@​tcolondon.​com before 12pm GMT on Fri­day 27 Novem­ber. Please remem­ber to include your full name so we know who to cred­it. You can also send us your entry via Twit­ter or Insta­gram by tag­ging @LWLies, but please be sure to email us your entry as well.

Offi­cial Syn­op­sis: Star­ring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara and set against the glam­orous back­drop of 1950s New York, Car­ol is an aching­ly beau­ti­ful depic­tion of love against the odds. From the author of The Tal­ent­ed Mr Rip­ley and acclaimed direc­tor Todd Haynes (Far From Heav­en, I’m Not There, Mil­dred Pierce) comes a pow­er­ful dra­ma about a mar­ried woman who risks every­thing when she embarks on a romance with a younger depart­ment store worker.

Car­ol is released in cin­e­mas 27 Novem­ber. Fol­low Car­ol on Twit­ter, Face­book and Insta­gram.

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