“Delon is a terrifically good in the role: his almost unearthly perfection is creepy itself, as if he is imitating a human being.”
Alain Delon’s first staring role was as novelist Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley – an immoral fantasist and sociopath who will stop at nothing to usurp another man’s life. Remade by Anthony Minghella in 1999 as The Talented Mr Rippley, Plein Soleil is the original – and arguably – the best adaptation of Highsmith’s 1955 novel.
