FRI SEP 20, 2024 7:30 PM PURPLE NOON / LA PISCINE $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Aero Theatre | ‘Alain Delon Remembered’ Add to Cart
ABOUT THE FILMS: PURPLE NOON, 1960, Dir. René Clément, 117 Min, Janus Films, France In French with English subtitles. Alain Delon was at his most impossibly beautiful when PURPLE NOON was released and made him an instant star. This ripe, colorful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s vicious novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, directed by the versatile René Clément, stars Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome on a mission to bring his privileged, devil-may-care acquaintance Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet) back to the United States. What initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon morphs into a thrilling saga of seduction, identity theft, and murder. Featuring gorgeous location photography of coastal Italy, PURPLE NOON is crafted with a light touch that allows it to be at once suspenseful and erotic, and it gave Delon the role of a lifetime. FORMAT: 35mm LA PISCINE, 1969, Dir. Jacques Deray, 124 Min, Rialto Pictures, France/Italy In French with English subtitles. Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) indulge in their passion for each other while borrowing a friend’s luxurious villa in the south of France. When the friend (Maurice Ronet) and his daughter (Jane Birkin) arrive unexpectedly, rivalries and insecurities surface and events take a sinister turn. FORMAT: DCP