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...EXETER: Rene Clement has created a superior suspense film in Purple Noon. The French title, Plein Soleil (probably best translated "Broad Daylight") is more accurate; the film is concerned with a daring attempt to execute the perfect daylight crime. Color photographs of the Adriatic and luscious Marie de la Foret guarantees spectacular footage, and Alain Delon as the top crook turns in an excellent performance...
...Rene Clement's Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) is a highly successful marriage of at least two movies. By turn a mystery thriller and a beautiful portrait of the Mediterranean, it emerges as a poignant statement of human corruption in a modern Eden...
...scheme, first elaborated in a novel (The Talented Mr. Ripley] by Patricia Highsmith, is now dramatized by Director Rene (Forbidden Games) Clement in a film noir that is skillful as well as repulsive. One pleasant summer's day, while drifting lazily over the Bay of Naples, Tom suddenly rams a fish knife into Philip's heart, wraps his body in a tarpaulin, weights it with an anchor, drops it overboard. Then he sails back to port, puts his own picture in Philip's passport, schools himself to forge the victim's signature, coolly cashes his checks...
This spirit is supplemented by the tribute to Rene Leynaud, written just after his death in 1944. Many have found Camus' undefined and imprecise use of the words "honor" and "decency" confusing: here is their explanation. A precis would be unfair, but Leynaud, who "never bargained about anything", will be recognized in his resemblance to Dr. Rieux in The Plague. When you have read the description of Leynaud, turn to Homage to an Exile, later in the volume, and read these sentences: "I cannot love all humanity except with a vast and somewhat abstract love. But I love...
...real cover portrait of Jean Kerr was painted, after seven hours of sittings, by Rene Robert Bouche, whose first TIME cover this is. An artist long familiar in the pages of Vogue, Bouche was described by TIME, on the occasion of his last one-man gallery show in Manhattan in October 1959, as the most fashionable portraitist now active. Bouche himself calls his paintings "loving criticisms...