Please join the MWPA and SPACE as we co-present a film screening of Loving Highsmith.
Loving Highsmith is a unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith based on her diaries and notebooks and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends and family. Focusing on Highsmith’s quest for love and her troubled identity, the film sheds new light on her life and writing.
Most of Highsmith’s novels were adapted for the big screen; the best known of these are Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Carol, a partly autobiographic novel, was the first lesbian story with a happy ending to be published in 1950s America. But Highsmith herself was forced to lead a double life and had to hide her vibrant love affairs from her family and the public. Only in her unpublished writings did she reflect on her private life.
Excerpts from these notes voiced by Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones, Top of the Lake), beautifully interwoven with archive material of her and her most famous novel adaptions, create a vivid, touching portrait of one of the most fascinating female writers.
Each ticket is $7 for SPACE or MWPA members and $9 for the general public, and you can register by clicking on the orange button above. Doors open at 6:30 PM, and the film starts at 7 PM.
Eva Vitija was born in 1973 in Basel, and she received her degree in screenwriting from the DFFB (German Film and Television Academy Berlin) in 2002. Vitija has been working as a screenwriter in Switzerland and Germany since her screenplay training, and she has written many feature film scripts for cinema and television, including Meier, Marilyn, Madly in Love as well as Sommervögel. In 2015, as part of her Master’s degree at the ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts), she made her first feature-length documentary film as a director: Das Leben Drehen. It was nominated as best documentary for the Swiss Film prize and for an award from the International Documentary Association, Los Angeles, and won various prizes, including the Prix de Soleure, the Basel film Prize and the Zurich Film Prize. Eva Vitija lives in Zurich.