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Movie number one is the thriller. A destitute American named Tom has been commissioned to lure an expatriate Phillipe away from Italy and Marge, a beautiful but suspect art student. Hating his sadistic charge and envious of his wealth, Tom murders him, disposes of the body and in a dangerous...
Movie number two is Clements Portrait of Eden. His cameras follow Phillipe's sloop Marge along the lush Italian coast from Rome to Sicily. From the Mediterranean setting he creates not so much a background as a circumscribed universe which encloses the action in a glass bell of almost suffocating...
Purple Noon studies its characters carefully, and Clement has made full use of a small but uniformly excellent cast. As Phillipe, Maurice Ronet is more than the usual doomed playboy: he creates a memorable picture of selfish animalism. When Marge delays making love to lecture him on art, he explodes...
Of the three, though, it is Marie Laforet in the complex role of Marge, who is the most striking. Possessing fascinating beauty, she alternates between passion and great delicacy, never losing control of her enigmatic character's many moods.
Story hasn't changed much. Come time, the Frakes all kerplump in the old man's crate and poot up to Dallas for the Texas State Fair, "the biggest state fair in the hull U.S.A." Mom Frake (Faye) wins the plaque for mincemeat. Pop Frake (Ewell) wins the...