Word: ripleyã
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Game is written and directed by Liliana Cavani (best known for 1974’s classic Nazi-sadomasochism sex fantasy The Night Porter) and her touch shows. She gives Ripley??s relationship with his Italian girlfriend a tender eroticism that makes his evil all the more human and frightening: it’s clear that he thinks of himself as an intelligent sophisticate living the life of his dreams, with no remorse. It is because he is so capable of love—of women, art and food, life’s finer pleasures—that...
...last time the cinemas were lit by Tom Ripley??s icy heart was The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1999. Anthony Minghella’s adaptation featured a poor, young and awkward Matt Damon, Class of 1992, murdering his way into social respectability and Gwyneth Paltrow’s heart. By Ripley??s Game, based on the fourth of Patricia Highsmith’s five Tom Ripley novels, Ripley is safely ensconced in an Italian villa bordering a small village, with a doting wife and an impressive chef...
Although Ripley is far removed from the petty criminality to which he once had to resort in order to build his fortune, it is not to last. Reeves (Sexy Beast’s Ray Winstone, gone all Ben Kingsley), an old partner from Ripley??s brief foray into art forgery, arrives one day, demanding Ripley??s help in murdering a competing Berlin mob boss...
...Reeves the name of local British expat framer Jonathon Trevanny (MI:2’s Dougray Scott). Trevanny has recently committed the cardinal sin: At a cocktail party, he said that “the problem with Ripley is too much money and no taste,” within Ripley??s range of hearing. In return, Ripley decides to play a game. Can he kill two birds with one stone: take revenge against Trevanny and aid Reeves simultaneously by turning Jonathon—a sweet family man devoted to his beautiful wife and young son—into...
...comparison with Talented, Game is more successful at translating Highsmith’s perception of humanity’s inhuman depths: We watch and cheer as Trevanny loses everything for Ripley??s amusement. Malkovich is so dispassionate that life and death become just another game...