Featuring gorgeous location photography of coastal Italy, “Plein Soleil” 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. 

“Plein Soleil” is an autopsy of a near-perfect crime, and a compelling look at the man who commits it. Played by a twenty-something Alain Delon, Tom Ripley is, at first glance, an unlikely criminal. Apparently insecure, he spends his time bumming around Italy, trailing after playboy Phillippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet) and his beautiful fiancee, Marge (Marie Laforet). 

The versatile director René Clément gives “Plein Soleil” a paradoxical noir feeling, using color and blazing sunshine, Compelling throughout, fantastic photography, beautiful people, builds to wicked climax, just so elegant, twisty plot, nice music. After all, young Ripley seems like such a nice boy…