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...last three to four years, noir has become culturally rehabilitated. The recent success of L.A. Confidential is one example: the re-release of Purple Noon (based on Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, with hunky French actor Alain Delon) is another. In the world of books, James Ellroy's novels are selling well. Ross MacDonald's works have been reissued in a Vintage edition, and the Harvard Bookstore featured a compilation of crime novels of the '40s and '50s only a month or two ago. I am compelled to ask: why now? Why are people suddenly interested in noir...
...somehow seem American if given American-sounding names like "Tom," "Marg," and "Freddy." Disconcerting is Clemote's use of the Italian setting, on which noon-strength sun gnaws, leeching color from sails, crumbling villas and driving everyone pretty much mad. Most disconcerting, certainly, are the mesmerizing eyes of Alain Delon, who, as the poor but desperate Tom, is able to manipulate men, women, and, of course, the audience, with his cocainepure blue gaze...
...first half of the film is powered by the erotic virtual twinship of its protagonists, Philipe and Tom. The opening scenes show them always together-- imitating each other and people passing by, kissing the same woman simultaneously. Ronet and Delon even look uncannily alike with their blue-green eyes, tan bodies, open shirts and light colored pants. In perhaps the most disturbing scene of the film, Tom, alone in Philipe's bedroom, puts on Philipe's clothes and starts speaking as Philipe, pretending to address Marg and kissing his own image in the mirror. Philipe discovers him and orders, "Take...
...second half of the film belongs to Delon, who, separated from Philipe and Marg, starts his own odyssey across Italy on which he attempts to emulate every extravagance of their decadent lifestyle. It is here that Tom's character is at last developed. The extremity of his ambitions and envy is demonstrated by his tigerlike eating--at times of tension he is seen devouring a peach in three angry bites, gnashing down a blazing chicken straight from the oven with his bare hands, slicing and gulping down long meaty lengths of sausage. All the while his sculpted good looks, strong...
...only other Harvard player in thetournament, freshman Amy Delon, played doubleswith Dragomirescu. After coming back from threematch points, the duo lost in a three-set decisionto a UVA team in the first round