Essential Cinema: Cinema of Patricia Highsmith
PURPLE NOON
Directed by Rene Clement
France, 1960, 1h 58min, 35mm, In French with English Subtitles.
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Alain Delon makes an unforgettable splash as Patricia Highsmith’s amoral protagonist Tom Ripley in this improbably sun-drenched adaptation of her novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. Alternately seductive and diabolical, he finds new cinematic dimensions in the oft-filmed character.
