“The Talented Mr. Ripley,” July 15 2006 (1999), DVD. Matt Damon stars with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Kate Blanchett, and Seymour Phillip Hoffman as a young man who aspires to be somebody and fakes it all the way. It’s a world of double-identities, duplicity, and murder. But it’s set in sunny Italy and the world of the super-rich where the lavatory assistant/pianist Ripley has arrived to supposedly bring a rich American ex-pat (Law) home to take over his dad’s shipyard. It’s a very well-acted piece, but it was so very unpleasant to watch, most of the characters so distasteful, that I didn’t like the film. It really disturbed me as a movie (which I guess is good), but I didn’t enjoy it. Only the women are ‘nice’ and even Blanchett’s character is a spoiled, albeit genuine, young woman on the tour. A hard one for me to recommend because I found it so creepy, but a good film.