It turns out that the American writer Patricia Highsmith, whose work inspired such illustrious filmmakers as Alfred Hitchcock and Todd Haynes, was just as prolific and popular with the most interesting women of her time.
Women lotharios are hardly as revered as their male counterparts, and even less so for history’s great queer romancers, whose lives are often reduced to their saddest highlights when they’re remembered at all.
In centering the writer’s sexuality in her lively and captivating documentary “Loving Highsmith,” filmmaker Eva Vitija does a great service not only to fans of Highsmith’s, but to all of queer history.Highsmith kept exhaustive diaries in addition to her published work, and both are voiced pleasantly in the film by Gwendoline Christie.
Her published writing takes on an obvious queerness when heard in concert with the diaries, though “The Price of Salt” (later renamed “Carol”) was her
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