The secretive and unpredictable Patricia Highsmith claimed that the duplicitous Tom Ripley was her alter ego, perhaps that’s why she kept returning to the character again and again.
Anthony Minghella’s star studded adaption of the first novel introduces us to the young Ripley, who is sent to Italy on a mission to bring an errant playboy back to his American home. Jealous of the glamorous world he lives in, Ripley goes to extreme measures adopt his lifestyle.
Dir: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport
Not only is it an elegantly polished affair, with top notch performances all round, and magnificent camerawork and editing, it's also acutely aware of how class, money and sex shape desire and resentment
Time Out
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