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     Dear Fran,

     This poignant story had me gripped with its sadness, both the murderers and Capote himself.

     The film, 2005, is directed by Bennett Miller and played by Philip Seymour Hoffman as the New Orleans writer, with Catherine Keener as the writer Harper Lee.

     Given the admiration, I would say fervour, that I feel for this man, when his name appeared on the television screen on a black background, I stayed glued to the armchair in my living room and didn´t blink for the next 114 minutes.

     Nothing to do with Breakfast at Tiffany´s, this film is a lancinating recreation of the life of the murderers, especially Perry Smith, and of the man who approached them.

     Fran, I really liked the photography, the music, the scenery, the costumes and the rate used by the film director in order to transport us to the early sixties of the last century.

     The actors have been immense in their roles and — if I have to refute something — it´s the treatment that in some moments they have given the protagonist´s height. There are shots where he appears much shorter than his friend Harper (apparently he was shorter than her) and others where he seems to have grown up; let´s not say when he´s next to Perry. All this will seem silly to you, but you know I keep 94 per cent of the details I see!

     To sum it, I will tell you that the title of de book seems to me the most accurate, because no one has the right to kill in cold blood: not Dick, not Perry, not the legal Kansas citizens.

     Y. a.

     Mary