Blazing Sun (Purple Noon)

"Its mechanical aesthetic suggests that rather than having to sublimate what remorse Tom Ripley might feel toward his actions, he simply doesn't experience any."

"Delon is a terrifically good in the role: his almost unearthly perfection is creepy itself, as if he is imitating a human being."

"Highsmith had some doubts about the ending, which feels less daring than the one in her book, but there's a clever irony to it Hitchcock would have appreciated."

"Tempering Hitchcockian intent with the experimentalism of the French New Wave, the result is as seductive as it is suspenseful: a bracing study of amorality."

"It's Delon - impossibly beautiful, impossible to read, cold, cool - who steals the film."