A TALENT FOR MURDER (in theatres)

Peneflix has been at war with the Internet and the result was not even Pyrrhic; the Internet ate her 62nd CIFF reviews. They will be addressed as they are distributed.

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Helen Mirren has the time of her life depicting Patricia Highsmith in the waning days of her life. It is a fictional version of an alcoholic, smoke-infused, creator of the inimitable, conman “Tom Ripley”; she salaciously soars matched with “Edward Ridgeway” (remarkable Alden Ehrenreich) a literary agent sent to her reclusive hideaway in Switzerland to encourage her to write a final Ripley novel. Hence, between the dynamic duo murders are forged, weapons apportioned, heroine allocated “Clementine Balfour” (enchanting Olivia Cooke). Director Anton Corbijn deliciously balances a movie within a movie; actors pole vaulting between disparate personalities; entertainment at a thinking man’s (or woman’s) level.

More than “A Talent For Murder” the film grasps the nuances of story telling in compelling Highsmith style.

FOUR STARS!!!!

Peneflix