Part of 1999
Wed, June 5 at 6:40pm: Introduction from Jason Shawhan, senior film critic for the Nashville Scene | BUY TICKETS
Patricia Highsmith’s novels are exceptional moral quandaries, the kind of traps that don’t reveal themselves as such until it’s far too late, and her recurrent antihero Tom Ripley — insecure, queerish, relatable — manages to articulate so much about the human experience from all points on the continuum of the humane. And here, played by Matt Damon, he’s an organism in conflict. When a taste of the good life draws him into a scheme, he finds himself adrift between different desires. And is there anything more American than letting a little murder keep that good life within reach? Also featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman at his most deliciously shady.
“Minghella's — and Damon's — triumph here is in making Ripleys of us all.” —Glenn Kenny, Premiere Magazine “This coolly beautiful film is both a superior thriller and an engrossing study of a sociopath's progress.” —Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide “Offers diabolically smart surprises wherever you care to look.” —Janet Maslin, New York Times
