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Hace 12 horas · The second movie we've reviewed where someone wants to be Jude Law (after Gattaca), but can you blame him?A stellar cast, all early in their careers, and a g...
Hace 2 días · THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY. Part of 1999. Patricia Highsmith’s novels are exceptional moral quandaries, the kind of traps that don’t reveal themselves as such until it’s far too late, and her recurrent antihero Tom Ripley — insecure, queerish, relatable — manages to articulate so much about the human experience from all points on the ...
Hace 3 días · For nearly 70 years, Ripley’s very guilty, very red, very bloody fingertips have stained the hearts of many. But perhaps the most famous adaptation is the 1999 film, “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow. “The Talented Mr. Ripley” brings the intoxicating pleasures of “La Dolce Vita” into ...
Hace 4 días · See The Talented Mr. Ripley for yourself this Thursday at IU Cinema! “Based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel, Anthony Minghella’s adaptation is as haunting as it is entertaining. While watching this mysterious work, you may feel as if you are encountering the ghosts of Hitchcock and Dostoevsky—and justifiably so.”
Hace 3 días · On April 4, Netflix released “Ripley,” a limited series that is an adaptation of the 1955 Patrica Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. The series concludes the third adaptation of the novel after “Plein soleil” (1960) and “The Talented Mr. Ripley” (1999). The series stars Andrew Scott (Fleabag, All of Us Strangers) as Tom...
Hace 2 días · When Matt Damon’s Ripley kills Jude Law’s Dickie Greenleaf in Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), it’s ugly, awkward, and leaves a bad taste; the same is true in René Clément’s Purple Noon (1960), when the most glamorously unlikely of all Ripleys, Alain Delon, prevails in a clumsy fight.
Hace 1 día · The Talented Mr. Ripley, directed by Anthony Minghella, follows the story of Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), a young man who is sent to Italy to retrieve a wealthy playboy, Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law).However, Tom becomes infatuated with Dickie's lavish lifestyle and embarks on a path of deception and betrayal, assuming his identity and risking everything in a treacherous game of manipulation.
