‘Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation’ Review: Friendship in Focus

Merging two biographies is a solid way to enliven the often-tedious genre of the literary documentary.

The director Lisa Immordino Vreeland uses the friendship between Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams to construct a dialogue between them, using the writing and appearances they left behind.

We hear the Southern-born authors on their writing habits, on how autobiography inflects their narratives, on their homosexuality and on substance abuse.

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