Bruno Ganz, Daniel Schmid, Dennis Hopper
A dying man reluctantly takes on a job as a hit man in order to have money to leave to his widow.
DVD Release Date: January 7, 2003
Stats: 173 reviews
beautifully shot and atmospheric thriller based on ripley's game with a great performance by bruno ganz. i admit i found it hard to imagine hopper as ripley but he was quite good too. and
it seems to be making a statement about u.s vs. europe. don't trust the americans? hmm...
A brilliant art house noir by Wim Wenders, adapted from Patricia Highsmith's Ripley's Game. Bruno Ganz plays Jonathan Zimmermann, a picture framer with an incurable blood disease, whose precariousness of health is manipulated by Dennis Hopper's Tom Ripley, a sociopa...( read more)
I watched this film as it was part of the German expressionim era and starring Dennis Hopper. Plus, a young Bruno Ganz as the German picture framer.
What I loved was the use of the locationswith the atmospher of the film. From Hamburg to the far end of Germany this creates a u...( read more)
I approached this film with some trepidation as I was less than impressed with the last Wenders film I watched (Paris, Texas which I found to be rather indulgent). Whilst this film does carry his trademark long pauses and rambling narrative, it contained just enough of a surreali...( read more)
Most audiences were first made familiar with the character of Tom Ripley from the 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley, but the character really originated in a series of novels by Patricia Highsmith which date back to 1955. The aforementioned film was an adaptation of the first no...( read more)
Una movie de Wim Wenders. Un moribundo consigue trabajo como asesino a sueldo para conseguir dinero fácil antes de partir de este mundo. Dennis Hopper es el amigo gringo que le ayuda a ejecutar a las víctimas.
An unusual and definitive 70s film. It has a slow pace that creeps up on you and totally pays off. There's also a level of suspense that is quite surprising. Here Wenders finds a perfect balance between his German roots and his love for American movies. Dennis Hopper is also very...( read more)
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