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Eva Vitija’s “Loving Highsmith” Doc About the Author Behind “Carol” Goes to Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber

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A doc in regards to the trailblazing queer creator behind the supply materials for “Carol” and “The Gifted Mr. Ripley” is on the best way. Zeitgeist Movies and Kino Lorber have acquired North American rights to Eva Vitija’s portrait of Patricia Highsmith. The movie, titled “Loving Highsmith,” might be launched theatrically this September. Deadline broke the information. 

Described as a “distinctive look” on the lifetime of the acclaimed American novelist, the doc focuses on Highsmith’s “quest for love and her troubled id by her private diaries and the intimate reflections of her lovers, associates, and household.” Shedding “new gentle on her life and writings,” “Loving Highsmith” revisits how the author “was compelled to guide a double life and needed to conceal her vibrant amorous affairs from her household and the general public, reflecting on the ever-present topic solely in her unpublished writings.”

A 2015 movie adaptation of Highsmith’s “The Worth of Salt,” “Carol,” noticed Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara starring as secret lovers. The interval drama garnered six Oscar nominations, together with an tailored screenplay nod for Phyllis Nagy.

Highsmith’s “Strangers on a Prepare” and “The Gifted Mr. Ripley” additionally served as inspiration for well-known movies of the identical title.

“Loving Highsmith,” which made its world premiere at Sydney Movie Pageant and can display at Frameline Movie Pageant later this month, consists of excerpts from Highsmith’s unpublished writing voiced by “Sport of Thrones” actress Gwendoline Christie.

“We’ve been questioning when somebody was going to make a very nice documentary about Patricia Highsmith, one of the unique, complicated, disturbing, fascinating writers (and other people) of the twentieth century,” mentioned Zeitgeist Co-Presidents Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo. “That is it and we will’t wait to deliver it out in North America in September.”

Vitija emphasised that she hopes the movie helps give Highsmith “the popularity in her house nation that she has all the time deserved!”

Supply: Women And Hollywood

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