Loving Highsmith
Loving Highsmith is a unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith.
Filmcoopi Zürich (Switzerland), Salzgeber & Co. Medien Berlin (Germany)
- Zürcher Filmstiftung, Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK), Kanton St. Gallen, Suissimage, UBS Kulturstiftung, Alexis Victor Thalberg Stiftung, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, SSA, MEDIA Desk Suisse, Eurodoc, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
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- 57. Solothurner Filmtage 2022
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 Highsmiths quest for love and her troubled identity, the film sheds new light on her life and writing.
Most of Highsmiths novels were adapted to the big screen, best known are Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Carol, a partly autobiographic novel, was the first lesbian story with a happy end in 1950s America. But Highsmith herself was forced to live a double life and had to hide her vibrant love affairs from her family and the public. Only in her unpublished writings she reflected on the ever present topic for her.
Excerpts from these notes voiced by Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones, Top of the Lake), beautifully interweaved archive material of her and her most famous novel adaptions create a vivid and touching portrait of one of the most fascinating female writers to date.
The result of an international co-production between Switzerland and Germany, "Loving Highsmith" was also shot in Aurigeno and Tegna, where Patricia Highsmith lived, and was co-produced by RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera.
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