Loving Highsmith

The film “Loving Highsmith” by the Swiss director Eva Vitija is based on the recently published diaries of Patricia Highsmith, the queen of psychological thrillers and a vital figure in queer history, and will be released in Croatian cinemas on December 18th.

The film focuses on her search for her own identity, turbulent love life and sheds new light on her writing. Exclusive archival material, accompanied by the voices of family, friends and the author herself, reveals the previously unknown face of one of the most screened writers of all time, whose templates were used in the cult films “Strangers from the Nord Express” (dir. Alfred Hitchcock), “The Talented Mr. Ripley” (dir. Anthony Minghella) and “Carol” (dir. Todd Haynes).