A Talent for Murder
In Anton Corbijn’s playful thriller, Oscar winner Helen Mirren delivers a fiendishly juicy portrayal of the legendary mystery author Patricia Highsmith in an imaginary scenario with a wicked sense of humor. Based on Joanna Murray-Smith’s play, Switzerland (adapted for the screen by the playwright herself), the story follows the famously tough Highsmith while the retired author receives a visit from over-ambitious publishing rep Edward Ridgeway (Alden Ehrenreich, unpredictable at every turn) at her handsome Swiss Alps home. The year is 1995 and the talented Mr. Ridgeway has but one mission: convince Highsmith to conjure up a final Tom Ripley murder mystery, poised to be a bestseller. As the equally stubborn and deliberate Ridgeway and Highsmith face off across a mazy creative process where their unknowable instincts often clash, the line between reality and fiction blurs in unimaginable ways, spilling both the blood and the beans as stylishly as a Highsmith novel. —Tomris Laffly
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Anton Corbijn
A polymath in photography, music videos, feature films, graphic design, and commercials, Dutchman Anton Corbijn is perhaps best known for immortalizing some of the greatest artists of our time with his iconic portraits. Effortlessly moving from photography into music videos in the early ‘80s Corbijn has made over 80 promos for people like U2, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, and The Killers. Corbijn’s first feature Control (2007) won five BIFAs and the Camera d’Or Special Mention at Cannes Film Festival. Corbijn has since made The American (2010), A Most Wanted Man (2014,) and Life (2015). In 2023, Anton released his first feature documentary Squaring the Circle about the iconic album art design studio Hipgnosis.
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