Noirish thriller features first-rate performance by Bruno Ganz
“The American Friend,&quot; directed by Wim Wenders, is an homage to Hollywood film noir, adapted from “Ripley’s Game,” the third Tom Ripley novel by Patricia Highsmith (“Strangers on a Train”). Hamburg picture framer and paint restorer Jonathan Zimmermann (Bruno Ganz) meets Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper), a shadowy American. Zimmermann insults him, knowing Ripley is involved in selling art forgeries in Germany. In retaliation, Ripley passes Zimmermann’s name to Raoul Minot (Gerard Blain), a French mobster seeking a hitman. Minot and Ripley use faked medical tests to convince Zimmermann that he’s dying of a rare blood disease, and promise a substantial sum of money for his family when he dies if he agrees to become Minot’s hitman. He does.<br /><br />“The American Friend” works as both thriller and character study. Ripley is an entirely self-serving, cold-hearted crook who uses intimidation and whatever else it takes to get his way. A classic manipulator with an oily charm, he has made a career of deception and dishonesty, winning the confidence of his marks, then homing in for the kill. Ripley is potentially lethal, and anticipating what he will do next comprises the major suspense element of the film.<br /><br />Ganz is especially effective as a man involuntarily enmeshed in a situation he cannot control. This is familiar Hitchcock territory, but Wenders isn’t as deft with it. Despite the falsified medical records, Zimmermann seems too willing to commit murder. After all, he is hardly a killer by trade. Once the plot is established, however, several well written scenes between Zimmermann and Ripley establish each man’s shaky moral compass.<br /><br />Bonus extras on the new, restored digital transfer Blu-ray edition include audio commentary from 2002 featuring director Wim Wenders and actor Dennis Hopper; new interview with Wenders; new interview with actor Bruno Ganz; deleted scenes with commentary by Wenders; a trailer; and a critical essay. The film is in English, French, and German, with English subtitles.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Patricia Highsmith's novel "Ripley's Game" is skillfully adapted into this Hitchcock-style thriller by Wim Wenders. A modest picture-framer, who believes he's terminally ill, is dragged into the seedy criminal underworld by an amoral art dealer who convinces him to carry out a Mob hit..