A film I disvered at the Pacific Cematheque last year has hnted me ever sce. Purple Noon (1960), directed by René Clément, is a lh, lourful adaptatn of queer thor Patricia Highsmh's 1955 crime thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley. Purple Noon (1960) sizzl wh an unrstated homoerotic subtext at a time when beg overtly gay land you …