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Purple Noon
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304298312
Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 6304298315
Label: Times Film Corporation
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Italian (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Times Film Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Times Film Corporation
Release Date: September 02, 2003
Running Time: 118 minutes
Studio: Times Film Corporation
Theatrical Release Date: 1996
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Editorial Review:
A member of the middle generation of French filmmakers between Renoir and the New Wave, René Clément was a strong visual stylist who tried on different subjects and genres: documentaries, semidocumentaries, wartime dramas, comedies. In Purple Noon he showed a strong facility for feverish film noir, and the results are quite memorable. Based on Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, the film stars Alain Delon as the notoriously amoral Ripley (a character also played, albeit quite differently, by Dennis Hopper in Wim Wenders's The American Friend). Envious of a playboy pal (Maurice Ronet) having a luxurious time on the Mediterranean, Ripley decides to murder the man and assume his identity. The subsequent suspense concerns the dirty deed done and the aftermath of complicated cover-ups, and in the best Hitchcockian sense you can never quite tell whose side you're on as Ripley's efforts at survival are followed in meticulous detail. Mesmerizing to watch, saturated in light and color, and topped by Delon at his most icy, Purple Noon is a terrific discovery for enthusiasts of film noir and the French cinema. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Meet the most beautiful, talented male actor of all time
It appears the "Purple Noon" story line has been detailed quite well in prior reviews, so no need to go on about it again. What I want to add is that this film could serve as a wonderful introduction to Alain Delon for a new generation. If you have never seen this actor at work, treat yourself to "Purple Noon" and think of it as a primer. It is much better than ".....Mr. Ripley", as it doesn't have the unrelenting, distasteful sense of evil and unpleasantness of Matt Damon's version. Damon simply ... Read More
Rating: - Faithful Thriller and Era
Not only faithful to Highsmith's great book, the cast gets the cool objectivity of her writing and is perfectly matched to the characters they are portraying, the movie also captures the bygone era of the South of France in the 1950s, its gentle rhythms a marvelous counterpoint to the tension of the unfolding drama.
Rating: - The Talented Mr Delon
Forget Matt Damon. Ladies, Alain Delon will crawl up your skin and send tingles where you want tingles to be and where you don't want them to be. Hard to explain the appeal of this film from 1960 but it is far more definitive and truer to the novel than johnny-come-lately versions. The Talented Mr Riply delivers a performance that defined his career up to 'Le Samourai' which defined 'cool' to several generations thereafter. Largely unknown in the USA, after some ill fated attempts at Holywood movies ... Read More
Rating: - Essential French cinema: Clément's 'Plein Soleil.'
Alain Delon takes identity theft to the extreme in this stylish French thriller. Based on Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, René Clément's (1913-1996) film, Purple Noon (Plein Soleil)(1960) stars Delon in the role of Tom Ripley, a "suave, agreeable and utterly amoral" con artist. Claiming he was sent to Italy to persuade his friend, Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet), to return to San Francisco and run his father's business, Ripley becomes enamoured with Philippe, his privileged lifestyle, ... Read More
Rating:  - The fine art of murder
Patricia Highsmith's THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY might be the finest American suspense thriller ever written. A clever young man from a disadvantaged background is sent abroad by an industrialist to bring home the latter's spoiled and vicious son; befriending the young rotter in Italy, the antihero becomes enamored of his decadent lifestyle and kills him so he can assume his identity. The novel is not only suspenseful but it forms a brilliant disquisition on the nature of identity at mid-century, and its relationship ... Read More
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