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The Remorseless Mr. Ripley
Andrew Scott’s phenomenal take on Patricia Highsmith’s con man anchors a deliciously mean adaptation.
Most of the series’ incredibly dark humor is at the expense of Tom’s adversaries: at Dickie daring to compare his horrible paintings, which evoke that botched Jesus portrait restoration, to Picasso, or Marge talking about all the work she’s put into a book about Atrani when her entire year’s worth of research can be spread out in a single layer over a kitchen table. Ripley mocks them with its editing choices, with Italian characters who practically roll their eyes at these self-absorbed Americans, and through Tom himself, whom Scott enlivens with barely contained glee when he’s needling Marge, Dickie, and their arrogant friend Freddie Miles (Eliot Sumner). A seminal queer work featuring Matt Damon at his most facetiously perky, Jude Law at his most beautiful, Gwyneth Paltrow at her most frigid, and Philip Seymour Hoffman at his most gloriously bitchy, The Talented Mr. Ripley is all golden light, aquamarine ocean, and sticky sweat.
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