LOVING HIGHSMITH

October 13 – 21, 2022
LOVING HIGHSMITH
$11 General Admission & $8 OFS members
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. Most of Highsmith’s novels were adapted for the big screen; the best known of these are Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Carol, a partly autobiographic novel, was the first lesbian story with a happy ending to be published in 1950s America. But Highsmith herself was forced to lead a double life and had to hide her vibrant love affairs from her family and the public. Only in her unpublished writings did she reflect on her private life. Excerpts from these notes voiced by Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones, Top of the Lake), beautifully interwoven with archive material of her and her most famous novel adaptions, create a vivid, touching portrait of one of the most fascinating female writers.
Dir: Eva Vitija / 2022 / US / 83 min

“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. ” – Jude Dry, indieWire

“The real achievement of Loving Highsmith though is the degree of access it provides to the inner life of a famously guarded woman, who described being interviewed as a ‘profound indignity.’ ‘I carry old memories around like a heavy suitcase,’ she writes. 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.” – David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

“A must-see documentary. It will send you racing to read the nearest Highsmith book at hand.” – Kathi Wolfe, Washington Blade

SCREENING: THU 10/13 4PM; FRI 10/14 4PM; SAT 10/15 4PM; SUN 10/16 4PM; THU 10/20 4PM; FRI 10/21 4PM

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