‘Loving Highsmith’ Film Review: Intimate Portrait of Author Patricia Highsmith Spotlights Relationships
thewrap.comth century, as we learn how each influenced the author both personally and professionally. Vitija also makes great use of Highsmith’s unpublished diaries, which are not only gorgeously written (no surprise) but unexpectedly expressive.
In fact, the film falters each time it strays from this focus: Rodeo images matched to the Texas scenes make for an awkward metaphor and wind up feeling like filler.
In contrast, a few sparsely-chosen film clips only make us wonder why there aren’t more. Fortunately Highsmith’s own words, which are voiced beautifully by Gwendoline Christie, always bring us back. “Writing, of course, is a substitute for the life I cannot live, am unable to live,” Highsmith confessed to herself.
But Vitija makes another case altogether — that she created an expansive and fascinating life, while simultaneously inspiring a great many others to do the same.“Loving Highsmith” opens in NYC September 2 and LA September 9..
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