French actor Alain Delon dies at 88
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Actor Alain Delon, one of the greatest figures of French cinema, has died at the age of 88, his children Alain Fabien, Anouchka and Anthony announced in a statement.
In the message, sent to the French agency AFP, the three children explained that the death occurred “peacefully” in Alain Delon’s house in Douchy, in central France.
On behalf of the family, they asked that “their privacy be respected at this time of extremely painful mourning.”
Delon leaves behind a legacy of 122 films, 88 of them as an actor, two as a director and 32 as a producerin a career linked to transcendental directors such as Jean-Pierre Melville (‘The Red Circle’, ‘The Silence of a Man’), Luchino Visconti (‘Rocco and his Brothers’, ‘The Leopard’), René Clément (‘In Full Sunlight’) or Louis Malle, during which he expressed the elusive figure of a stoic and vulnerable leading man.
In the awards section, since its first appearance on the big screen in 1957Delon has been awarded a César for Best Actor in 1985 for Bertrand Blier’s Notre-Dame; the Honorary Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1995 and the Berlin International Film Festival award. In May 2019, his most notable recognition came with receiving the Honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes.
Of particular note are his eight collaborations with another unmistakable name, Jean-Paul Belmondo, who died in 2021. Precisely the failure of the last of them, ‘Uno de Dos’ (Patrice Leconte, 1988), would mark his gradual withdrawal from the screen. Since then, Delon limited himself to sporadic appearances as ‘The Actors’ while he left the public light.
One cannot ignore the controversy in which he was involved just before receiving the Palme d’Or in Cannes after the attacks on homosexuals and womenThe actor said it was “unnatural” for gay people to have children and admitted to slapping several women, prompting protests from feminist groups.
Source: Eitb
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