The American Friend (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 12, 2016
- Originally Released: 1977
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dennis Hopper & Bruno Ganz | |
Performer: | Lisa Kreuzer, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller & Gérard Blain | |
Directed by | Wim Wenders | |
Edited by | Peter Przygodda | |
Screenwriting by | Wim Wenders | |
Original story by | Patricia Highsmith | |
Composition by | Jürgen Knieper | |
Produced by | Wim Wenders | |
Director of Photography: | Robby Müller |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
A gripping Hitchockian thriller based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith.
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TV Guide
...A French-flavored thriller about friendship, isolation, and its own moody self...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
Although it is a thriller by genre, Wenders is clearly interested in things beyond the mechanics of Ripley's manipulations and Zimmermann's desperation
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Q Network Film Desk
... only a filmmaker as humane as [director Wim Wenders] could recognize there's no way out of the story's moral corruption.
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RogerEbert.com
Rating: 3/4 --
Most Highsmith adaptations have turned out to be satisfying movies -- the earliest example being Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train and the most recent being Carol -- and this one's no exception.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: 8/10 --
Crafty and beguiling and unexpectedly smart about people.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
The cool, cunning sociopath of Highsmith's novel becomes a restless international hustler, selling art forgeries and brokering deals (some of which may actually be legal) while travelling back and forth through Germany, France, and the United States.
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Seanax.com
Product Description:
Jonathan Zimmermann, a German picture-framer, is dying of a rare blood disease. Despite his illness, the happily married Jonathan does his best to live each day to the fullest with his wife and child. But when Tom Ripley, a cunning American gangster, learns of Jonathan's sickness, he convinces the dying man--deeply concerned about his family's financial future--to work as a hit man for a big payoff. Will Jonathan get in over his head by making a deal that could ruin what's left of his life' German director Wim Wenders delivers a sensitive, film-noirish tribute to the American gangster film, based on the novel RIPLEY'S GAME by Patricia Highsmith.
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