French acting star Alain Delon, whose many iconic roles included Le Samouraï, Plein Soleil and The Leopard, has died in France at the age of 88.
The actor’s children said in a statement that their father had passed away in the early hours of Sunday, surrounded by his family and beloved Belgian Shepherd Loubo, in his long-time chateau home in the village of Douchy, in the Le Loiret region some 100 miles south of Paris.
Delon’s death marks the passing of one of the last surviving icons of the French cinema scene of the 1960s and 70s, when the country was on an economic roll as it reconstructed in the wake of World War II.
Related: French Pres. Emmanuel Macron Leads Tributes To Alain Delon: “More Than A Star, A Monument”
The star, who was at the peak of this career from the 1960s to the 1980s, fell into acting by chance.
The actor’s children said in a statement that their father had passed away in the early hours of Sunday, surrounded by his family and beloved Belgian Shepherd Loubo, in his long-time chateau home in the village of Douchy, in the Le Loiret region some 100 miles south of Paris.
Delon’s death marks the passing of one of the last surviving icons of the French cinema scene of the 1960s and 70s, when the country was on an economic roll as it reconstructed in the wake of World War II.
Related: French Pres. Emmanuel Macron Leads Tributes To Alain Delon: “More Than A Star, A Monument”
The star, who was at the peak of this career from the 1960s to the 1980s, fell into acting by chance.
- 8/18/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
French actress Nathalie Delon, who was known for her glamorous on-screen persona and high-profile personal life, has died at the age of 79.
The actor Anthony Delon, son of Nathalie and her former husband Alain Delon, told Afp that she died on Thursday after a “very fast cancer”.
Nathalie and Alain famously starred together in the Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1967 neo-noir Le Samourai. The 21-year-old Nathalie had met the 29-year-old actor in a nightclub when he was in the media spotlight after a stormy five-year engagement to Romy Schneider. Following an affair, the pair were married in secret and departed for the U.S., with the actor engaged in a short-lived contract with MGM. Their son Anthony was born shortly after.
They received rave write-ups for Le Samourai but their marriage was stretched by the actor’s infidelity, including an affair with actress Mireille Darc when they appeared together in Jean Herman’s 1969 crime pic Jeff.
The actor Anthony Delon, son of Nathalie and her former husband Alain Delon, told Afp that she died on Thursday after a “very fast cancer”.
Nathalie and Alain famously starred together in the Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1967 neo-noir Le Samourai. The 21-year-old Nathalie had met the 29-year-old actor in a nightclub when he was in the media spotlight after a stormy five-year engagement to Romy Schneider. Following an affair, the pair were married in secret and departed for the U.S., with the actor engaged in a short-lived contract with MGM. Their son Anthony was born shortly after.
They received rave write-ups for Le Samourai but their marriage was stretched by the actor’s infidelity, including an affair with actress Mireille Darc when they appeared together in Jean Herman’s 1969 crime pic Jeff.
- 1/22/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Cannes film review: 'Under Suspicion'
"Under Suspicion" accomplishes a seemingly impossible feat. Two of the movies' finest actors, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman, turn in thoroughly artificial performances. Not terrible ones, mind you. But in having to give life to contrived characters caught up in an unconvincing dramatic situation, you can see how hard they have to work. In other words, you catch them acting.
Their admirers will certainly turn out in the early days of any theatrical release. But word will soon get around so only modest returns can be expected.
That Hackman and Freeman served as executive producers again underscores the old truism that actors are not always the best judges of what material is best for them. A French film, Claude Miller's "Garde a vue", apparently caught the eye of Hackman, who talked Freeman into doing a remake for Freeman's company, Revelations Entertainment.
But what was implied in the French film is overt in this American version. For director Stephen Hopkins hits every dramatic point with sledgehammer intensity. Clearly, the word "subtle" was never uttered on his set.
The film's setup has police Capt. Victor Benezet (Freeman) asking his old friend Henry Hearst (Hackman), one of Puerto Rico's most prominent lawyers, to drop by the station "for 10 minutes" to clear up a detail or two in a case under investigation. One doesn't need clairvoyance to suspect that 10 minutes will stretch to several hours.
Writers Tom Provost and W. Peter Iliff then throw in this additional melodramatic device: Henry has to be across the town square in half an hour to deliver a speech at a gala benefit -- attended by the captain's boss, no less.
Even more implausible, though, is the very idea that any lawyer would remain two minutes in a police station once he realizes he's being grilled as a suspect in the rape and murder of two young girls.
Whatever compels Henry Hearst to delve into every unsavory aspect of his sorry life in front of two cops -- with Thomas Jane's hot-tempered detective playing bad cop to Freeman's good gendarme -- is nonexistent in the script.
Henry's story changes often during the long night. And much of the hedging and dissembling can be traced to his rocky marriage to the exquisite and very young Chantal (Monica Bellucci). The evasions and other scraps of circumstantial evidence all point to Henry's guilt. Again, one doesn't need clairvoyance to see this as a sure sign of his innocence.
This is a fussy film, full of jump cuts, speeded-up action, overheated theatrics, fantastic plot twists and awkward flashbacks that bizarrely place Henry and his interrogators at the scene of the crimes.
Perhaps Hopkins hoped such techniques would distract from his improbable narrative. Or perhaps he felt this was a way to further hype the confrontation between cop and suspect. Who knows? One can be clairvoyant without being psychic.
UNDER SUSPICION
Revelations Entertainment and TC1 International
Director:Stephen Hopkins
Producers:Lori McCreary, Anne Marie Gillen, Stephen Hopkins
Screenwriters:Tom Provost, W. Peter Iliff
Based on the film "Garde a vue" written by: Claude Miller, Jean Herman, Michel Audiard
Executive producers: Morgan
Freeman, Gene Hackman, Maurice Leblond, Ross Grayson Bell
Director of photography: Peter Levy
Production designer: Cecilia Montiel
Editor: John Smith
Costume designer: Francine Jamison-Tanchuck
Music: BT
Cast:
Henry Hearst: Gene Hackman
Captain Victor Benezet: Morgan Freeman
Chantal Hearst: Monica Bellucci
Felix Owens: Thomas Jane
Running Time -- 111 minutes...
Their admirers will certainly turn out in the early days of any theatrical release. But word will soon get around so only modest returns can be expected.
That Hackman and Freeman served as executive producers again underscores the old truism that actors are not always the best judges of what material is best for them. A French film, Claude Miller's "Garde a vue", apparently caught the eye of Hackman, who talked Freeman into doing a remake for Freeman's company, Revelations Entertainment.
But what was implied in the French film is overt in this American version. For director Stephen Hopkins hits every dramatic point with sledgehammer intensity. Clearly, the word "subtle" was never uttered on his set.
The film's setup has police Capt. Victor Benezet (Freeman) asking his old friend Henry Hearst (Hackman), one of Puerto Rico's most prominent lawyers, to drop by the station "for 10 minutes" to clear up a detail or two in a case under investigation. One doesn't need clairvoyance to suspect that 10 minutes will stretch to several hours.
Writers Tom Provost and W. Peter Iliff then throw in this additional melodramatic device: Henry has to be across the town square in half an hour to deliver a speech at a gala benefit -- attended by the captain's boss, no less.
Even more implausible, though, is the very idea that any lawyer would remain two minutes in a police station once he realizes he's being grilled as a suspect in the rape and murder of two young girls.
Whatever compels Henry Hearst to delve into every unsavory aspect of his sorry life in front of two cops -- with Thomas Jane's hot-tempered detective playing bad cop to Freeman's good gendarme -- is nonexistent in the script.
Henry's story changes often during the long night. And much of the hedging and dissembling can be traced to his rocky marriage to the exquisite and very young Chantal (Monica Bellucci). The evasions and other scraps of circumstantial evidence all point to Henry's guilt. Again, one doesn't need clairvoyance to see this as a sure sign of his innocence.
This is a fussy film, full of jump cuts, speeded-up action, overheated theatrics, fantastic plot twists and awkward flashbacks that bizarrely place Henry and his interrogators at the scene of the crimes.
Perhaps Hopkins hoped such techniques would distract from his improbable narrative. Or perhaps he felt this was a way to further hype the confrontation between cop and suspect. Who knows? One can be clairvoyant without being psychic.
UNDER SUSPICION
Revelations Entertainment and TC1 International
Director:Stephen Hopkins
Producers:Lori McCreary, Anne Marie Gillen, Stephen Hopkins
Screenwriters:Tom Provost, W. Peter Iliff
Based on the film "Garde a vue" written by: Claude Miller, Jean Herman, Michel Audiard
Executive producers: Morgan
Freeman, Gene Hackman, Maurice Leblond, Ross Grayson Bell
Director of photography: Peter Levy
Production designer: Cecilia Montiel
Editor: John Smith
Costume designer: Francine Jamison-Tanchuck
Music: BT
Cast:
Henry Hearst: Gene Hackman
Captain Victor Benezet: Morgan Freeman
Chantal Hearst: Monica Bellucci
Felix Owens: Thomas Jane
Running Time -- 111 minutes...
- 5/15/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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