Page-to-Screen: Wim Wenders’s The American Friend and Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley Novels
By Brian Greene
January 15, 2016When writing about a film adaptation of a work of fiction, it can get a little tricky when the movie in question is actually based on two different novels. But in the case of the 1977 neo-noir title, The American Friend by Wim Wenders, it’s really not all that complicated. The movie’s characters and plot…