Loving Highsmith

Name: Loving Highsmith
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 2, 2022
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Annina Butterworth, Courtney Coates Blackman, Dan Coates, Gwendoline Christie, Judy Coates

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: September 2, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Annina Butterworth, Courtney Coates Blackman, Dan Coates, Gwendoline Christie, Judy Coates, Maren Kroymann, Marijane Meaker, Monique Buffet, Patricia Highsmith, Tabea Blumenschein

Summary: Loving Highsmith is a unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith based on her diaries and notebooks and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends and family. Focusing on Highsmith’s quest for love and her troubled identity, the film sheds new light on her life and writing.

Director: Eva Vitija-Scheidegger

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 84 min

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IndieWire Jude Dry

Jun 21, 2022

As seen through the eyes of her former lovers (merely a few of many), Highsmith’s life is brought sharply into focus, revealing as much about her humanity as her work. Read full review

David Rooney

Jun 23, 2022

In its fine balance of emotional and intellectual curiosity, and its elegant assembly of a rich archive of home movies, photographs and interviews, this film unpacks those memories with beguiling candor Read full review

Sophie Monks Kaufman

Apr 13, 2023

It is tempting to want people to be one thing or the other: the murderer or the victim. This film reminds us: Highsmith was both. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Sep 1, 2022

We learn in the documentary Loving Highsmith that the author herself knew plenty about the duality that defined so many of her characters. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

Sep 6, 2022

Ultimately, “Loving Highsmith” provides a valuable addition to the larger record of the author’s enigmatic life, rather than a comprehensive chronicle itself. Which might be altogether fitting for a woman who always seemed to prefer to remain just out of reach. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Xan Brooks

Apr 16, 2023

It’s a thorough, measured, often illuminating portrait, aided by readings from Highsmith’s unpublished diaries and interviews with her ex-lovers. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Apr 14, 2023

It is basically droningly reverent, as well as sometimes bland and naive. Read full review

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