Purple Noon

“Purple Noon is one of my favorite films in the world and it’s always a sort of reference of mine. Again, Maurice Ronet. And Alain Delon, who was just amazing.”

“Purple Noon. This film, it was perhaps the first time that I captured this wonderful essence that many thrillers from France have, that they don't explain too much the psychology or the psychoanalysis behind why the characters do what they do. I love that the French don't do that. Life doesn't work like that, also cinema doesn't, but life even less so. This film is fantastic, I recommend it a lot and Alain Delon is very beautiful in this one, very gorgeous.”

“This holds a very special place in my heart, Purple Noon or Plein Soleil, which was the first realization of The Talented Mr. Ripley. I was recommended this by Anthony Minghella. It's very different to the Talented Mr. Ripley that I made with Minghella. If anything, to choose Delon to play Ripley himself, and they don't change it from the book that he's a painter in the film, what I did we made him a musician. It's got lots of twists and turns, the same color blue in the sea as our one.”

“So Purple Noon, the same source material as The Talented Mr. Ripley, so I never saw Purple Noon because, as famous as it is, I stayed away from it to do Ripley. I didn’t want to see it, and Anthony Minghella didn’t want me to see it, and I never watched it after. But it is a classic, and so I’m going to pick this one up.”

“Purple Noon. Another film I saw on a flight. This is a theme that’s happening. I see a lot of films on a flight. Alain Delon, one of The Most Beautiful men that has ever graced a screen. And it’s all complicated, and it’s all about being someone else and aspiring with the wealth, wealthy, and doing dastardly things, and looking like this.”