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‘There’s no such thing as a perfect murder. That’s just a parlour game, trying to dream one up. Of course you could say there are a lot of unsolved murders. That’s different.’ Patricia Highsmith’s brilliant, […]
Patricia Highsmith’s distinguished, chilling crime novel Ripley’s Game (the third book in her Tom Ripley sequence) becomes a slick, polished and riveting pulp fiction thriller in 2002 in the expert hands of an unexpected film-maker […]
With more subtlety, more noir, and an entirely different ending, the 1999 film The Talented Mr Ripley would be 100% brilliant. As it is, it’s still quite entrancing and mesmerising, with a dazzling cast pitch […]
The simmering, shimmering 1960 crime thriller Plein Soleil [Purple Noon] stars Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet and Marie Laforêt. Delon memorably plays Tom Ripley, a mimic, moocher and murderer. This fascinating but flawed French 1960 version […]
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