After so much effort to catch up with her, Alain Delon finally managed to embrace his death. The French press cites a statement this morning from his “three children (and his dog Loubo)” to AFP. The “monument,” the “samurai of French cinema,” the newspapers and televisions say, has departed. The actor who had the most beautiful and theatrical deaths in cinema passed away “peacefully” at his estate in Douchy, at the age of 88. Alain Delon’s deaths in cinema were beautiful. But he never hid that aging was not sweet, that health and aging, cancer and a stroke, were injurious to one who had been one of the most beautiful creatures on the planet.
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