July 2024

Ripley: A Double Life of Crime

Unit photography by Philippe Antonello, Stefano Cristiano Montesi and Lorenzo Sisti. All images courtesy of Netflix. Tom Ripley, author Patricia Highsmith’s psychopathic social climber, is back grifting in Ripley, an eight-episode thriller written and directed by Steven Zaillian and shot by Robert Elswit, ASC. Hewing closely to Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, the story unfolds in the early 1960s, following the eponymous New York con man (Andrew Scott) on a fateful mission to Italy, where he attempts to ingratiate himself with wealthy gadabout Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn). Crimes ensue, and Ripley is soon posing as Greenleaf and cashing his trust-fund checks. Eventually, law enforcement comes calling in the form of Inspector...more