Loving Highsmith

2022

Biography / Documentary / History

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 72% · 47 reviews
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 567 567

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Plot summary

The story of the life, loves and work of US writer Patricia Highsmith (1921-95), told through her unpublished diaries, her own voice and that of those who knew her, both family and close friends.


Uploaded by: FREEMAN
July 31, 2022 at 07:50 PM

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Top cast

Matt Damon as Tom Ripley
Gwendoline Christie as Patricia Highsmith
Cate Blanchett as Carol Aird
Rooney Mara as Therese Belivet
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771.43 MB
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Multiple languages 2.0
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1 hr 23 min
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Multiple languages 2.0
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Subtitles es  
25 fps
1 hr 23 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by elision10 5 / 10

Disappointing

I love Patricia Highsmith's work so much. It's almost criminal to think that, at least when I was growing up, she wasn't taught at all in school. Always read the Highsmith book before seeing the movie based on it. As highly regarded as Strangers on a Train and Carol are, neither has one-tenth the extraordinary complexity and moral ambiguity of Highsmith's writing (nor, with the exception of Blanchett's Carol, do any of its characters).

Thus any documentary about this magnificent author is going to be of some interest. But by focusing so relentlessly on Highsmith's relationships with women, the film conveys little of why we should care about Highsmith at all. There is little about her professional life -- relationships with editors, failures, sales volumes, etc., let alone any serious examination of her work.

So for the devoted Highsmith fan the movie is worth watching but nevertheless a disappointment.

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Reviewed by hbeeinc 4 / 10

Far too broad with at least one massive inaccuracy

The movie starts off with the filmmaker saying "I started reading her diaries and fell in love with her."

I'm currently reading her diaries and it really doesn't feel like the filmmaker read them. The docu portrays her as a man-hating lesbian. That's not true. Her diaries show that, while she preferred women, she certainly slept with men. On purpose. And even enjoyed it sometimes.

The relationship with her mother, too, was much more complicated than the filmmaker lets on. She and her mother actually talked about her lesbianism with her mother sometimes commenting about her current girl friend. Both of her parents read her work and, as Highsmith tells it, were helpful and supportive.

The oddest choice was continuing the Texas theme throughout the whole movie. Highsmith left Texas when she was 6. To see the movie, you'd think that Texas was all she thought of. That's just not the case, at least from her diaries.

I suppose I went into this expecting this to blow me away since the diaries are so powerful. The interviews were interesting...except when the white subtitles blended into the white background. Why is this still a thing??

She's a fascinating woman and deserved a better tribute to her.

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