Column Dinner and a Movie
DINNER AND A MOVIE The second in a series of at home food and movie pairings.
The Talented Mr. Ripley and Venticello’s Ristorante Italiano
By Cinema Cat & Gourmet Gracie Your Two Minute Movie Review this month almost satisfies our thwartedby-the-pandemic travel bug. Take a spectacular tour of Italy while taking in the psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley. By his own account, Tom Ripley,
played by a young Matt Damon, is talented at forging signatures, telling lies, and impersonating pretty much anyone. But it only took a borrowed jacket and a little white lie to whisk him into an expenses-paid tour of Italy and an up-close and too-tantalizing taste of the lives of the über rich.
How will the secretive and sly interloper secure his place in a life not his own? Maybe he’ll befriend Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) who is heir to the fortunes of his father’s shipping conglomerate, looking as good as any self-centered cad ever has. Or, our Mr.
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