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If the history of cinema had to be shrunk to a few moments, what would remain? Chaplin's tramp, James Dean's coolness, Marilyn Monroe's swirling rock, a few more sequences. Necessarily to these very large scenes of the cinema history would include the appearance of Alain Delons in the movie "The Ice Cold Angel" from 1967. Last but not least, the actor will receive the Golden Palm of Honor on Sunday (19.5.) – which does not suit everyone. But more on that later.
The motionless facial expressions, the icy cold, rigid look, the accurate exterior, the closed-arrogant appearance – as contract killer Jeff Costello Delon should no longer go by the audience. Jean-Pierre Melville's directorial masterpiece "The Ice Cold Angel" condenses the already existing charisma of the French once again many times over.
Alain Delon: of supernatural beauty and elegance
Born on November 8, 1935, near Paris, Delon was already a household name in European film in 1967. But Delon had not attracted attention with appearances in the then so revolutionary directors of the Nouvelle Vague François Truffaut or Jean-Luc Godard. The young savages around Truffaut and Godard, who at the beginning of the 1960s turned the European cinema with furor and passion, the young, smart actor probably seemed too aloof and maybe a little too supernaturally beautiful.
Young dream couple: Delon and Romy Schneider 1959
Delon was undoubtedly one of the best-looking actors of his generation, his attraction was not limited to women. The great Italian director Luchino Visconti put him early in two films that wrote cinema history: "Rocco and his brothers" (1960) and three years later in his epic "The Leopard". Visconti's fellow-countryman Michelangelo Antonioni also made Delon shine alongside Monica Vitti in "Love 1962" as a slightly dreamy stockbroker.
The most erotic killer in film history
It was Jean-Pierre Melville, the director, who made Delon what he still sees in the eyes of many movie fans: the most charismatic and erotic killer in film history. After his appearance in "The Ice Cold Angel" Delon was still in Melville's "Four in the Red Circle" (1970) and in "The Chief" (1972). Everything that followed was just an encore. Judging by the roles that Alain Delon played in the 1960s to that of Commissioner Edouard Coleman in Melville's last film, one could speak of a steady artistic descent.
In the movie "Naked under Leather" (1967) with Marianne Faithfull
Of course, many actors would be grateful for a filmography, as Alain Delon could still show in the 70s and 80s – but compared to what he played in the 60s, the late work seems a little tired and drained. Alain Delon's Golden Decade includes films such as "The Swimming Pool" (1969), opposite Romy Schneider, with those legendary scenes of naked rocking by the pool, the impressive political drama "The Hell of Algiers" ( 1965) and the Patricia Highsmith film adaptation "Only the sun was witness" (1960).
As a gangster and a cop on the screens
Later, Delon has focused on many routine appearances in more or less successful gangster films that feature titles like "Flic Story," "Do not Show Off Killers," or "The Panther." In those years, Delon was the undisputed star of French cinema alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo and Michel Piccoli.
With film partner Dalila Di Lazarro in "Killer do not introduce themselves"
After the golden 19560s he still had a few engagements for great artists on the director's chair: in 1976 he played the Alsatian art dealer Robert Klein in Joseph Losey's "Monsieur Klein" in Paris occupied by German troops. In 1984 he was hired by the German Volker Schlöndorff for his Marcel Proust film adaptation "A Love of Swann".
And in 1990 he drew attention once again in a complex art film by former Nouvelle-Vague director Jean-Luc Godard, which was significantly called simply "Nouvelle Vague". As if he wanted to demonstrate once more with all his power that he can do art too – and not just commerce.
Flying visit in Hollywood
But Delon played for a long time in its own league, which existed independently of all the artistic and commercial developments of French film. Hollywood had probably not been able to irritate him permanently. The appearance in 1973 in Michael Winner's "Scorpio, the killer" remained one of the few exceptions in the French-influenced work of the mime. The stuff for the Hollywood star would certainly have had Alain Delon.
When Delon showed up with politicians, most were from the conservative camp, here with President Jacques Chirac
Hollywoodreif were many of his private appearances: his affairs and marriages, his public caprices. Starting with the relationship with Romy Schneider in all media about the relationship with his later wife Nathalie, the actress Mireille Darc, to the marriage with the Dutch model Rosalie van Breemen – conversation was always taken care of.
Rumors about his connections to the underworld
The murder of his Yugoslavian bodyguard, who was said to have had a relationship with his then wife Nathalie, shattered France in 1968. The allegations against Delon in this context were dropped years later. But since then the actor has been buzzing about the wildest rumors – he has close ties to the underworld, has connections to the mafia.
End of March in front of the Elysee Palace, as well as Delon was on the guest list of a state banquet
Delon later consolidated his reputation as an inapproachable loner with dodgy friends with his public friendship with the right-wing populist Jean-Marie Le Pen. The proximity to the "Front National" meant nothing to honor for Alain Delon, he stood by her. And in the end, it did not hurt his career either.
But she is not forgotten. When Cannes director Thierry Frémaux was asked at the beginning of the festival these days why he would award such a prize to Delon, a man who admitted to having beaten his wife earlier, Frémaux responded flabbergasted: "We're not giving him that Nobel Peace Prize "was the answer.
In the last few years it has become quiet around Alain Delon
In recent years, Alain Delon has hardly stepped in front of the cameras. In 2008, he had one of his few comedic appearances when he made the audience laugh as Julius Caesar in the comic book adaptation "Asterix at the Olympic Games". Alain Delon will be remembered by his fans, especially with his roles from the 1960s. He seemed to have descended directly from the Olympus of the cinema: angelic, but with a pistol at the ready: an ice-cold angel.
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