Essential Cinema: Cinema of Patricia Highsmith
THE AMERICAN FRIEND
Directed by Wim Wenders
West Germany, 1977, 2h 5min, DCP, In English, French, German with English Subtitles.
There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.
Wim Wenders’ adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel RIPLEY’S GAME is a perfect intersection of the author’s themes and the filmmaker’s talents. Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper are memorable as two men whose lives and fortunes are brought together by greed.
