PURPLE NOON
| 1960 (RE-released in 2014) – 115′ – DRAMA, THRILLER, FILM & LITERATURE, CLASSIC.
Written by: René Clément, René Gégauff.
Based on the Book by: Patricia Highsmith.
Directed by: René Clément.
Starring: Alain Delon, Marie Laforêt, Maurice Ronet, Erno Crisa, Elvire Popesco, Frank Latimore, Billy Kearns, Romy Schneider.
Official Selection COLCOA 2014 (West Coast Premiere digitally restored version).
In French with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |
Alain Delon was at his most impossibly beautiful when Purple Noon was released and made him an instant star. This ripe, colorful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s vicious novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, directed by the versatile René Clément, stars Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome on a mission to bring his privileged, devil-may-care acquaintance Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet) back to the United States. What initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon morphs into a thrilling saga of seduction, identity theft, and murder. Featuring gorgeous location photography of coastal Italy, Purple Noon is crafted with a light touch that allows it to be at once suspenseful and erotic, and it gave Delon the role of a lifetime.