The novels of Patricia Highsmith are a gift to filmmakers. Murderous levels of desire and jealousy simmer in protagonists, often criminals or outsiders, whose calculating observations power page after page in a slow burn towards a dreadful denouement.
Save for her one extraordinary romance, Carol (aka The Price of Salt), it is the underbelly of human nature that captured Highsmith.
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