Patricia Highsmith was an American author who specialized in psychological thrillers and dark character studies. She published more than twenty books between the early 1950s and '90s, including ...

Steven Zaillian has created a more-than-brilliant, profound and post-canonical adaptation of the story of the villain who reinvented the very concept of the villain ...

Somewhere Patricia Highsmith is smiling. Alain Guiraudie’s 10th feature film, “Misericordia,” is very much like the late novelist’s writings and the author herself — that is to say, something of a ...

The French writer-director makes transgressive dramas ... “Misericordia,” evokes such chroniclers of desire and misbehavior as Patricia Highsmith, Georges Batailles and, above all, Claude ...