Loving Highsmith – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

Eva Vitja on researching and reframing Patricia Highsmith in LOVING HIGHSMITH – Nadine Whitney interviews

April 18, 2023April 21, 2023 Nadine Whitney carol, documemtaries, Gwendoline Christie, Loving Highsmith, Marijane Meaker, Patricia Highsmith, Tabea Blumenschein, tom ripley

Swiss filmmaker Eva Vitja Loving Highsmith takes us through the contradictions of famed but reclusive author Patricia Highsmith. Highsmith’s reputation as a difficult and anti-social woman who battled with depression and social ostracism for her sexuality and later with some deeply controversial views is given a new prism through which to view and understand Highsmith’s mercurial nature.

Reviews

LOVING HIGHSMITH – Review by Marilyn Ferdinand

August 26, 2022September 1, 2022 Marilyn Ferdinand (Archived Contributor) documentary, Eva Vitija, Loving Highsmith, Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Vitija

Social-climbing killer Tom Ripley is one of the most memorable characters in all of fiction, one who has been memorialized on the silver screen several times. The genius behind his creation, Patricia Highsmith, was a well-known, successful writer at the very beginning of her career, when her debut novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was optioned by Alfred Hitchcock for his masterful 1951 film of the same name.