The American Friend

Dir. Wim Wenders, German, English, French, 1977

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Thu 12 January 2012 // 19:30 / Cinema

Frame maker Jonathan (Bruno Ganz) believes he is dying. Knowing this Jonathan's American friend, displaced cowboy Ripley (Dennis Hopper) introduces him to a gangster who asks him to become a mob assassin. Ripley intends Jonathan to do his dirty work, but has second thoughts when he becomes friends with the doomed man.

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'Superb adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game, with Hopper as her amiably cynical hero, asked to find a non-professional for a killing or two, and - in echo of Strangers on a Train - drawing an innocent family man into the game by persuading him that the blood disease he is suffering from is not merely incurable but terminal. '

- Time Out London

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06hIZ76Zlds

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