#179
My Rating:
7
Seen It:
Yes
| Matt Damon | Tom Ripley |
| Gwyneth Paltrow | Marge Sherwood |
| Jude Law | Dickie Greenleaf |
| Cate Blanchett | Meredith Logue |
| Philip Baker Hall | Alvin MacCarron |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | Freddie Miles |
| Jack Davenport | Peter Smith-Kingsley |
| James Rebhorn | Herbert Greenleaf |
| Sergio Rubini | Inspector Roverini |
| Celia Weston | Aunt Joan |
| Director | Anthony Minghella |
| Producer | William Horberg; Tom Sternberg; Steve E. Andrews; Lydia Dean Pilcher |
| Writer | Anthony Minghella; Patricia Highsmith |
| Cinematography | John Schwartzman |
| Musician | Gabriel Yared |
Superbly adapted from the acclaimed novel by Patricia Highsmith (also the basis of the acclaimed French version, Purple Noon), The Talented Mr. Ripley is writer-director Anthony Minghella's impressive follow-up to his Oscar-winning triumph The English Patient. Re-creating late-1950s Italy in exacting detail, the film captures the sensuousness of la dolce vita while suspensefully developing the fracturing of Ripley's mind as his crimes grow increasingly desperate. And where Hitchcock was necessarily discreet with the homosexual subtext of Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Minghella brings it out of the closet, increasing the dramatic tension and complexity of Ripley's psychological breakdown. Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Cate Blanchett are excellent in pivotal supporting roles, and the film's final image is utterly effective: Ripley's talents have gone too far, and this study of class distinction, obsession, and deadly desire reaches a disturbing yet richly appropriate conclusion. --Jeff Shannon
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