Mike's Movie Projector

2,000 POSTS DONE!, so I am posting less frequently, but will still be adding news, comments and photos.. As archived, its a ramble through my movie watching, music and old magazine store and discussing People We Like [Loren, Monroe, Vitti, Romy Schneider, Lee Remick, Kay Kendall, Anouk & Dirk Bogarde, Delon, Belmondo, Jean Sorel, Belinda Lee; + Antonioni, Hitchcock, Wilder, Minnelli, Cukor, Joni Mitchell, David Hockney etc]. As Pauline Kael wrote: "Art, Trash and the Movies"!

Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Delon & Laforet, again

And to round off this session on 1960s French glamour, here once again are some terrific stills of Alain Delon and Marie Laforet in Rene Clement's PLEIN SOLEIL from Patricia Highsmith's THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY .... feel the heat of the mediterranean ...

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Andrew D.24 June 2015 at 23:55
I JUST watched this for the first time Monday night, caught off of TCM weeks back. Really enjoyed, much more than the Damon version. Laforet was a gem that I had to look up to see what else she's done and was shocked to discover IMDB doesn't even have a picture of her on her page. Of course, everyone loves Delon and Purple Noon did nothing to sway my opinion of him. One of my favorite actors! Great post!
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Michael O'Sullivan25 June 2015 at 07:25
Good you enjoyed it, though it changes the ending of Highsmith's book, its the version I prefer, as per the other posts here - see Mr Ripley or Plein Soleil labels - it captures the real glamour of the late 1950s mediterranean and the clothes they wear still look ideal now. Of course the later version by Minghella in 1999 consderably expands and changes the original too,with a whole new odd ending ...
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Martin Bradley25 June 2015 at 17:51
Of course I love PLEIN SOLEIL and Delon and Ronet but I still prefer THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY.
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