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There is a main problem. The actor who plays Tom Ripley, Andrew Scott, is almost 50 years old when the character, Tom Ripley, is 25-30 years old in the novel. Netflix, I'm not going to watch this series who does not respect a very basic rule. There are plenty of younger actors who could have played this role.

Alain Delon was about 25 years old when he played Tom Ripley in Purple Noon (1960, directed by René Clément), first film adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel, and Matt Damon was about 29 in the 1999 adaptation by Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley. Much better choices.

Johnny Flynn, who plays Dickie Greenleaf, is too old for the role too, about 41. And, not strangely, Dakota Fanning is about 30, the correct age. "Not strangely" means, women in films are always young and beautiful.

This TV series is an old-fashioned one, for people over 75 years old, a shame !

Nicolas Cage has not played in such a "good" movie (rated 7 by me) for sooooo long! It was quite a surprise. It is his 6th film in 2023 (7 in 2018, 7 in 2019, not really a proof of quality), whoa.

Message to the writer (and director) Kristoffer Borgli:

At 0:03:20 in the film, there is this quote (by Nicolas Cage aka Paul Matthews, a BIOLOGY professor) to his students: "So, when talking about adaptive strategies, why does the zebra look the way it does?"

Well,STRATEGY does NOT EXIST in the evolution theory.

For more than 30 years, I've been writing to the newspapers/journalists about evolution because in 98% of the cases/articles, they don't understand evolution/evolutionism and they're writing wrong stuff.

The film is unfortunately a deceptive adaptation of this great and complicate XXth century love story novel by Albert Cohen. Some women friends of mine commented, it's pretty unconceivable to understand how a male writer could so well understand and describe and write (about) woman's psychology, woman's inside.

I loved the book a lot but not the film, pretty poor. I like Meyers as an actor but here, imho, he looks too young (he was 35 then) as Solal, even if Solal had a vertiginous social climb.

At about 31 minutes into the film, we can see a very nice wood house at the Geneva lake. I knew the (unnice) owners so I went there once or twice. For the ones interested, you can see it in Promenthoux at 46.391986° 6.267007° in Google Maps.