How can you ever make a compelling documentary about a writer, even one as brilliant as Patricia Highsmith?
Writers are famous for, um, writing – which doesn't make for gripping viewing, as the footage of Highsmith typing demonstrates.
Still, you can get close to fi lming a writer's thoughts if, like Highsmith, they keep diaries and do enough interviews.
And so this turns out to be a good documentary about a writer, splicing Highsmith's thoughts from her diaries with interviews,
