"I Believe Her Experience of Love Was a Brutal One": Director Eva Vitija on Her Patricia Highsmith Doc, Loving Highsmith

With their pronounced and callous violence, their serpentine studies of obsession, delusion, and identity, Patricia Highsmith's hypergraphic body of work has by now become as much a part of the culture of literary fiction and cinema as that of her lionized male counterparts. But where the personas of Hammett and Chandler have been crafted into legend, the Houston-born Highsmith has stayed a cipher. While in recent years a pair of biographies and the release of her excerpted private diaries have ...