# Purple Noon (1960)

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**Original title**: *Plein soleil*
**Runtime**: 118 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: René Clément
**Written by**: Paul Gégauff, René Clément
**Starring**: Alain Delon, Marie Laforêt, Maurice Ronet, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore, Billy Kearns

> *Passion at ten. Envy at eleven. Murder at noon.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Mediterranean summer sunlight on a sailboat 
Tom Ripley forges identities 
A classic thriller from the French New Wave era.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, cerebral, paranoid

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