Here is a documentary about the love affairs of Patricia Highsmith, the author of Strangers on a Train and the Ripley series. These inspired hit movies from directors including Hitchcock, René Clément and Anthony Minghella, which cemented her reputation and bestseller-income and subsidised her elegant European wanderings and encounters; from this film, directed by Eva Vitija, I learned that Highsmith wrote journals in French, German and Spanish.
It is certainly a heartfelt tribute, with some interesting interviews with Highsmith’s old lovers, lots of sharp, intimate snapshots of Highsmith (evidently taken in each case by her lover at the time), TV interview archive material in which she is always unexpectedly accommodating and polite, and flavoursome readings from her letters and diaries with Gwendoline Christie providing the voiceover.
