Andrew Scott stars as a grifter who's always ready to swindle, seduce or murder in a new eight-part miniseries based on 1955 novel. Ripley combines a bold narrative with visual surprises throughout.
Andrew Scott stars as a grifter who's always ready to swindle, seduce or murder in a new eight-part miniseries based on 1955 novel. Ripley combines a bold narrative with visual surprises throughout.Author Patricia Highsmith wrote her first of several novels about Tom Ripley, a successful con man, in 1955. Four decades later, that first book,, was adapted into a 1999 movie, starring a young Matt Damon.
Scott, in a tour de force performance, is in virtually every scene in the first five episodes. He's intense even when he's soft-spoken. We first meet Ripley as he's pulling off a detailed mail-fraud con job when he's approached in a local New York bar by a private eye working for a wealthy man, Dickie's father, with an unusual offer.
When Ripley arrives, he finds Dickie living in a gorgeous rented Italian villa, in the company of a woman, Marge, who has designs on benefiting from Dickie's lavish lifestyle. But so does Tom – and he gets close enough to be a fellow guest in Dickie's villa.This triangle – Ripley, Dickie and Marge – actually becomes a rectangle, thanks to the arrival of another friend of Dickie's, a playwright named Freddie.
And there are other bold narrative and visual surprises throughout. At one point, there's an unexpected but pertinent flashback to the 1600s. Elsewhere, there's a very clever visual trick of translating Italian newspaper headlines into English on screen by morphing them from one language to the other. And somewhere, amid all this glorious black and white, there's one quick splash of color – an effect reminiscent ofone of the other films on Zaillian's resume.
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