Alain Delon, Ave Ninchi, Billy Kearns
A member of the middle generation of French filmmakers between Renoir and the New Wave, René Clément was a strong visual stylist who tried on different subjects and genres: documentaries, semidocume...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 2, 2003
Stats: 111 reviews
Tom Ripley, played by the impossibly glorious Alain Delon, is an intelligent, handsome, cold-blooded indentity-stealer, and nothing more. We are witnesses to his quiet endeavors and his restless cruelty. Rene Clement delivers no sentimentalism, no deep introspections into the cau...( read more)
an interesting french thriller based on patricia highsmith's book 'the talented mr. ripley'. released in 1960, it's fun for fans of the american version. the ending is quite different among other things. and how can alain delon be so cold and so hot simultaneously? lol
A Patricia Highsmith adaption with the handsome as ever Alain Delon as the cold and calculating Tom Ripley. As well as Delon's stunningly chilling performance, singer Marie Laforet is worth noting in what was her first film role. All this coupled with stunning photography and bri...( read more)
I liked this adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel just a bit better than 1999's "The Talented Mr. Ripley," although that was good as well. This is smoother and classier, and Alain Delon is chilling as Tom Ripley. The two movies vary significantly in how they end. I haven't re...( read more)
Awesome. The characters are not as well developed as in The Talented Mr Ripley, but it's still a too great story. Delon's icy hot performance is bichin', and it's worth watching if only for that brilliant completely different ending :P
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