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Patricia Highsmith at 100: the best film adaptations


Patricia Highsmith at 100: the best film adaptations
Guy Lodge
Graham Greene famously declared Patricia Highsmith “the poet of apprehension” in the foreword to her 1970 short story collection
Eleven. There’s no better way to describe the American writer, whose psychological thrillers meld gliding literary cool with a jangling morass of nerves – a combination, in turn, that film-makers have been trying to translate since the middle of the last century. This coming Tuesday marks the centenary of Highsmith’s birth, and her allure to screenwriters remains undimmed in 2021. A glossy new Ben Affleck-starring film of her novel
Deep Water, the first film from Adrian Lyne in 19 years, is scheduled for August, while a TV version of ....

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