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Purple Noon [Criterion Collection]
Director: Ren? Cl?ment, Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim
Cast: Alain Delon
, Marie Lafor?t
, Maurice Ronet
, Erno Crisa
, Elvire Popesco
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- Release Date: 12/04/2012
- UPC: 0715515090216
- Original Release: 1960
- Rating: NR
- Source: Criterion
- Region Code: 1
- Presentation: [Wide Screen]
- Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
- Language: English
- Runtime: 7020
- Sales rank: 15,955
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Two wastrel Americans tool about Italy. The rich Ronet is merely nasty; the poverty-stricken Delon is a potential murderer. Though both men share the same girl (Marie Laforet), there is a subliminal theme of homosexual envy throughout. This is underlined when Delon tries on Ronet's clothes and decides he looks better in them--and that he'd be better off if he was Ronet. Originally released as Plein Soleil, Purple Noon was based on The Talented Mr. Ripley, a novel by Patricia Highsmith, the same writer responsible for Hitchcock's "doppelganger" classic Strangers on a Train.
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- Purple Noon [Criterion…
- Director: Alain Delon
In plot and tone, René Clément's Purple Noon is closer to the spirit of Patricia Highsmith than Anthony Minghella's high profile 1999 adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Where Minghella attempted to give the characters psychological motivation, Clement presents Tom Ripley has nothing other than a self-serving killer. Henri Decaë's cinematography is as pathologically removed from the action as Tom; the aristocratic Mediterranean backdrop is somehow flat and sickly unalluring. With an impassive eye and steady pace Ripley's crimes unfold with cold-blooded rational. This story telling deliberately wrecks havoc with the audience's sympathies. Tom is a villain but we can't help but identify with his attempts to avoid capture for his murder, and we are ruthlessly pushed and pulled between feeling anxiety for his safety and for the welfare of his potential victims. Alain Delon is both a blank slate and an eager young man on the make, like Tony Curtis' Sidney Falco with no qualms about making compromises because he has no morals to compromise. The film similarly refuses to take a moral stance on its characters. With her Ripley books, Highsmith deliberately played into the gothic frisson elicited by watching a monstrously bad deed go unpunished and Clement also understands the allure of a well-structured bit of entertainment that dares the audience to indulge their darkest instincts. In 1996, Purple Noon was theatrically re-released in the United States by Martin Scorsese in conjunction with Miramax Zoe.