Lesbian Doc “Loving Highsmith” Opens at Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol September 9
| OUTwatch, Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival and Rialto Cinemas are all co-sponsoring Loving Highsmith |
| Based on Patricia Highsmith’s personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writer’s life and work, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity. The Price of Salt (the first Lesbian novel which broke with convention by depicting a lesbian relationship that ended with the promise of fulfillment, not moral condemnation, misery or death), Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train and the Talented Mr. Ripley were all written by Highsmith.“It focuses extensively on Highsmith’s sexuality and relationships with women, shedding light on her double life and eventual choice of solitude while subtly suggesting how those experiences resonated through her celebrated prose. …Perhaps the real achievement of Loving Highsmiththough is the degree of access it provides to the inner life of a famously guarded woman.” Hollywood Reporter Go to www.outwatchfilmfest.org for more information |