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Documentary filmmaker Eva Vitija remembers being struck by the idea of Patricia Highsmith ... features conversations with Highsmith’s family and former lovers, a selection of illustrative ...
Everything that Patricia could not say aloud ... but also the uncomfortable fact that many of Highsmith’s lovers, and most all of her actual loves, were Jewish. “She was full of contradictions ...
It turns out that the American writer Patricia Highsmith ... As seen through the eyes of her former lovers (merely a few of many), Highsmith’s life is brought sharply into focus, revealing ...
Via interviews with admirers and lovers and clips from her rodeo ... A double-page spread in The Times last week challenged: ‘Love Patricia Highsmith? Her life story will make you hate her.’ ...
The best moments in Patricia Highsmith’s novels are the ones in ... the director also speaks at length to her friends and lovers, including writer Marijane Meaker and artist Tabea Blumenschein.
Literary critic Terry Castle says most people know Patricia Highsmith's writing ... Intrigued, Vitija set about finding some of Highsmith's former lovers. Her documentary Loving Highsmith, which ...
The Life of Patricia Highsmith, had numerous Jewish lovers. Camila Mendes as Drea and Maya Hawke as Eleanor in Netflix's "Do Revenge." Released September 16, "Do Revenge" is loosely based on ...
Don’t overlook Patricia Highsmith ... There are also extensive interviews with three of Highsmith’s lovers: one American, one French, one German. These are key. The title “Loving Highsmith ...
Those in the literary know, know Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995 ... and Rooney Mara as her young lover, represents a critical aspect of Highsmith’s personal life, and a central focus of this ...
Gwendoline Christie voices Patricia Highsmith’s diary entries ... Tom Ripley, who one of Highsmith’s former lovers describes as the author’s alter ego, began as a man she watched walking ...
The punishment for those who love Patricia Highsmith’s best novels is that ... It’s a documentary on her life and her lovers, straying occasionally into literary comment and interpretation.