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  • 2022
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2022
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary 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.

Directed By: Eva Vitija

Written By: Andres Veiel, Sabine Gisiger, Eva Vitija

  • 2022
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2022
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 23 m

Loving Highsmith

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary 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.

Directed By: Eva Vitija

Written By: Andres Veiel, Sabine Gisiger, Eva Vitija

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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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62% Positive
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38% Mixed
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83
Jun 21, 2022
As seen through the eyes of her former lovers (merely a few of many), Highsmith’s life is brought sharply into focus, revealing as much about her humanity as her work.
By Jude Dry FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 23, 2022
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
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 2, 2022
It is, above all else, a fascinating window into the personal and creative life of a queer woman constantly rebelling against the restrictive social norms of her time while trying to decipher what kind of person she is herself.
By Dan Mecca FULL REVIEW
65
Sep 1, 2022
We learn in the documentary Loving Highsmith that the author herself knew plenty about the duality that defined so many of her characters.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 16, 2023
It’s a thorough, measured, often illuminating portrait, aided by readings from Highsmith’s unpublished diaries and interviews with her ex-lovers.
By Xan Brooks FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 1, 2022
Most of her exes’ memories stop short of being psychologically insightful. Strung together, however, these tender confidences shape an outline of a woman who never trusted anyone with her heart.
By Amy Nicholson FULL REVIEW
40
Apr 14, 2023
It is basically droningly reverent, as well as sometimes bland and naive.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Ensemble Films, Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion (I), Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), RSI-Radiotelevisione Svizzera, SRG - SSR, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), ARTE
Release Date Sep 2, 2022
Duration 1 h 23 m
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Website https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/loving-highsmith
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Awards

FEST International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sofia International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sunny Bunny LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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