FILM REVIEW
Ripley's Game
Director: Lilliana Cavani
Cast: John Malkovich, Dougray
Scott, Ray Winstone, Lena Headey
Classification: tba
Running Time: tba
Opens On: 27 February
2004
How do you turn an
innocent person into a murderer? That's the diabolical game
that Tom Ripley is playing in Liliana Cavani's sleek
suspense thriller Ripley's Game. Based on the third novel in
Patricia Highsmith's celebrated Ripley series, Ripley's Game
is a cunning entertainment that rattles moral assumptions as
well as nerves. As Tom Ripley, genius of improvisational
murder and connoisseur of all things beautiful, star John
Malkovich slips effortlessly into his character's skin to
give one of the greatest performances of his career. Cavani
creates an atmosphere of exquisite tension even as she
challenges us to consider how we might respond in the same
circumstances. Rather like the man himself, Ripley's Game
seduces with its sophistication, wit and daring.
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