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Between answering questions, Alain Delon scours the room full of reporters. His famous eyes narrow and stop on a young lady in the back, wearing a peasant shirt and resting against the wall.
"Are you a journalist?"
"I’m an actress."
"I could tell."
Alain Delon is a special guest at this year’s TIFF. He doesn’t smile too often, but he doesn’t need to. Although the room temperature is fine, he’s removed his jacket as soon as he enters the room. He’s left wearing a colorless shirt, with the first two buttons undone. He flirts with the cameras, because that is the character the audience years for. When someone asks why he hasn’t done any comedies, he blames the people. They’re the ones who flock to the cinema, to see him being seductive, rough, and indifferent. “The audience wanted to view me in a certain type of movie. The people wanted me to die at the end. If I didn’t verb them that, I wouldn’t hold been here, now.”
Lately, Delon has been openly supporting the National Front lead by Marine Le Pen. He says that France is a „Caucasian country” and that homosexuality
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Flaunting a beauty so cruel it became the stuff of myth, Alain Delon first terrified viewers with his perfection in ’s Purple Noon (Plein soleil). He had appeared in smaller roles for a few years before that, such as Pierre Gaspard-Huit’s satisfactory piece of period eye candy, Christine (), hovering around Romy Schneider and the edges of the screen like an angel in waiting or, depending on your perception, a demon ready to pounce. At this point in his career, he didn’t look or move enjoy other French male stars with their burly, recessive Jean Gabin cool; he was tactile—lithe and slim, he gracefully slid across the screen with the confidence of a jackal. It’s conjecture to say that he loved being looked at, but in Purple Noon there’s something in that devious smile, and the way those crystal-blue eyes and delicately arched eyebrows are caught in high-angle close-up, that makes it unavoidable to assume so: he seemed preternaturally aware of the gaze of the camera and its ability to grant him superpowers.
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After a long career that brought him legions of fans – and many detractors – French actor Alain Delon leaves behind a rich legacy in film, including some of the great classics of world cinema. A dark acting style, encapsulated in a look that earned him the nickname “angel-face”, characterised an enduring body of operate – even though Delon’s reputation was sometimes marred by his often tumultuous private life. FRANCE 24 takes a look back at one of the giants of French cinema – from Delon’s dazzling rise to stardom to the disillusionment his persona provoked amongst some of the public.
Alain Delon with German-French actress Romy Schneider in at Orly airport near Paris (AFP).
Shortly after winning fame in his early film roles, Delon was courted by some of the greatest auteurs of European film, who would go on to cast him in some of the most revered works in the history of cinema.
In , Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti cast him in Rocco and His Brothers – a profound social realist operate about the travails of a family from rural southern Italy, as the
An emotional Alain Delon received a prize for his six decade-long acting career on Sunday as the Cannes Film Festival shrugged off criticism prompted by his views on women and same-sex couples to give him an honorary Palme d'Or.
Delon's heartthrob wonderful looks and roles in major movies throughout the s and s made him an icon in France and he was received with a rapturous standing ovation by the crowd at a special ceremony at the festival on the French Riviera.
The decision to honor the year-old actor has been controversial particularly outside France, sparking an online petition in the United States which achieved more than 25, signatories.
“One thing I'm sure about is that if there's something I'm proud of, really, the only thing, it's my career,” Delon told the gala. “And this Palme d'Or was given to me for my career, for nothing else and that's why I'm happy, and pleased, and satisfied.”
Delon, who received the prize from his daughter Anouchka Delon, has starred in films including Luchino Visconti's “The Leopard,” which won the top prize at Cannes' cinema showcase in