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| 1960 (RE-released in 2014) \u2013 115\u2032 \u2013 DRAMA, THRILLER, FILM & LITERATURE, CLASSIC. Alain Delon was at his most impossibly beautiful when\u00a0Purple Noon\u00a0was released and made him an instant star. This ripe, colorful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith\u2019s vicious novel\u00a0The Talented Mr. Ripley,\u00a0directed by the versatile Ren\u00e9 Cl\u00e9ment, stars Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome on a mission to bring his privileged, devil-may-care acquaintance Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet) back to the United States. What initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon morphs into a thrilling saga of seduction, identity theft, and murder. Featuring gorgeous location photography of coastal Italy,\u00a0Purple Noon\u00a0is crafted with a light touch that allows it to be at once suspenseful and erotic, and it gave Delon the role of a lifetime.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n PURPLE NOON | 1960 (RE-released in 2014) \u2013 115\u2032 \u2013 DRAMA, THRILLER, FILM & LITERATURE, CLASSIC. Written by:\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Cl\u00e9ment,\u00a0Ren\u00e9 G\u00e9gauff. Based on the Book by:\u00a0Patricia Highsmith. Directed by:\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Cl\u00e9ment. Starring: Alain Delon, Marie Lafor\u00eat, Maurice Ronet, Erno Crisa, Elvire Popesco, Frank Latimore, Billy Kearns, Romy Schneider. Official Selection\u00a0COLCOA 2014 (West Coast Premiere digitally restored version). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,24,11,119,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-classic","category-drama","category-films-literature","category-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21906,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21903\/revisions\/21906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by:\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Cl\u00e9ment,\u00a0Ren\u00e9 G\u00e9gauff.
\nBased on the Book by:\u00a0Patricia Highsmith.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Cl\u00e9ment.
\nStarring: Alain Delon, Marie Lafor\u00eat, Maurice Ronet, Erno Crisa, Elvire Popesco, Frank Latimore, Billy Kearns, Romy Schneider.
\nOfficial Selection\u00a0COLCOA 2014<\/strong> (West Coast Premiere digitally restored version<\/strong>).
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA The Criterion Collection release. |<\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"