Articles related to director René Clément & ‘Purple Noon’, which screened at the Institut français d’Écosse on the 21st of February 2025.
Photo: René Clément
“The Kind of Film You Make Passionately”: René Clément on Purple Noon (Interviews, 5 December 2012, Criterion | Excerpted from an interview that originally appeared in the February 1, 1981, issue of L’avant-scène: Cinéma. Olivier Eyquem and Jean-Claude Missiaen conducted it.)
Bonjour Tristesse; Plein Soleil – review. In his final column for the Observer, our film critic Philip French welcomes the re-release of two influential classics from the late 1950s
Plein Soleil Review (Films de France.com)
Purple Noon: A superior take on The Talented Mr. Ripley (Wendy Lesser, The Moviegoer, 6 October 2016)
René Clément Biography: Life and Films (Films de France.com)
Purple Noon: In Broad Sunlight (Geoffrey O’Brien, 5 December 2012, Criterion Collection)
Henri Decaë (cinematographer):
The Beautiful Crimes of Henri Decaë (Imogen Sara Smith, 20 December 2017, Criterion)
> Henri Decaë Tribute (The French cinematographer Henri Decaë (1915-1987) worked with directors Jean-Pierre Melville, Francois Truffaut, Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, René Clément, Georges Lautner, Franklin J. Schaffner, and Serge Bourguignon. Films used: Le Samourai, Le Cercle Rouge, 400 Blows, Bob Le Flambeur, Lift to the Scaffold, Le Silence de La Mer, The Boys From Brazil, Leon Morin, Priest, Les Amants, Les Cousins, Sundays and Cybele, The Professional, and Purple Noon.)
Nino Rota (composer):
Nino Rota (composer) (Wikipedia)
Plein Soleil (Suite) · Nino Rota