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Ripley's Game
- Director: Liliana Cavani
- Writer: Charles McKeown; Liliana Cavani
- Producer: Simon Bosanquet; Marco Chimenz
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From the director of The Night Porter.
The 3rd Ripley book and a re-make of The American Friend (Wim Wenders).
Apart from looking like Frank Spencer, Malkovich plays Ripley - 17 years older than Damon’s Talented - with microwave ovens and mobile phones – which is a problem, when is this actually meant to take place?
Cavani’s eye for detailed is annoyingly squint and she has chosen only certain traits of Ripley’s character to promote.
Highsmith, herself, made Ripley sexually ambiguous – here, he is the chilling sociopath - ludicrously in love with his harpsichord-playing wife.
What should have been a multi-layered feast of disturbia becomes a straightforward lacklustre, flat thriller with some fine performances.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience? Luisa prepares for her concert.
Cast & Characters
Ray Winstone as Reeves;
John Malkovich as Tom Ripley;
Uwe Mansshardt as Terry;
Hanns Zischler as Art Dealer;
Paolo Paoloni as Franco;
Maurizio Luca as Franco's Assistant;
Dougray Scott as Jonathan Trevanny;
Evelina Meghnagi as Maria;
Chiara Caselli as Luisa Harari;
Lena Headey as Sarah Trevanny;
Sam Blitz as Matthew Trevanny;
Emidio La Vella as Shoe Shop Owner;
Lutz Winde as Ernst;
Nikolaus Deutsch as Dr. Wentzel;
Wilfried Zander as Belinsky