{"id":15489,"date":"2013-08-26T16:31:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=15489"},"modified":"2013-08-26T16:31:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T15:31:35","slug":"plein-soleil-purple-noon-alain-delon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2013\/08\/26\/plein-soleil-purple-noon-alain-delon\/","title":{"rendered":"Plein Soleil (Purple Noon)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although later adapted in 1999 by Anthony Minghella, the first film version of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley<\/a> was a French adaptation, directed by Rene Clement.<\/p>\n

It follows the adventures of Tom Ripley (Alain Delon), hired by the father of rich playboy Phillipe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet), with instructions to bring his wayward son home from Italy.<\/p>\n

But Phillipe, his fiancee Marge (Marie Laforet) and Tom decide to stay in the Mediterranean, divisions start to arise.<\/p>\n

Clement made his name as a director just after World War II, with Beyond the Gates (1949) and Forbidden Games (1952), both of which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.<\/p>\n

Plein Soleil a.k.a Purple Noon (1960) came at an interesting point in world cinema, just as the French New Wave was taking the world by storm with Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959) and Godard’s Breathless (1960).<\/p>\n

Some of the younger directors were critics who had derided Clement, most famously Truffaut in his famous diatribe “A Certain Tendency in French Cinema<\/a>“.<\/p>\n