2023-04-17 20:06:43
Alain Delon wrote the preface to a biography dedicated to him. It will be released on May 5, 2023. AFP/THOMAS COEX
The Samurai wrote the preface to a book dedicated to him. This work written by Denitza Bantcheva and Liliana Rosca appears at La Martinière on May 5.
Alain Delon confides that he wanted “to be the best, the most beautiful, the strongestfor the women in his life, in the preface to a book dedicated to him, to be published on May 5 by La Martinière editions and consulted in preview on Monday by AFP.
Amply illustrated with photos, some of which are unpublished, Alain Delon, Loves and Memories reviews the actor’s childhood and career, film by film. “Love has always led me to surpass myself“, writes Delon in this book by Denitza Bantcheva (author of a reference work on Jean-Pierre Melville), and Liliana Rosca, collaborator of the actor who collected unpublished testimonies.
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“I never dreamed of being an actor. I entered the profession and I continued to play by women and for womens,” says Delon, 87, citing actresses Brigitte Auber, Michèle Cordoue, Romy Schneider, Nathalie Delon and Mireille Darc, as well as the mother of her last two children, Rosalie van Breemen. “If there’s one thing I’m proud of, it’s my career” Who “would not have existed without the meetings with the great filmmakers who formed and sublimated me”believes the one who was directed in particular by René Clément, Luchino Visconti, Jean-Pierre Melville and Joseph Losey.
A letter to Romy Schneider
Jean-François Delon, brother of the actor and assistant director on Borsalino or The Widow Couderc, recounts their childhood and delivers memories of shootings. Costa-Gravas, for whom Delon is “the beast of French cinema, irreplaceable and inimitable“Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale, Jane Birkin and Nathalie Baye also testify.
Alain Delon, whose personal positions have sparked controversy, dedicates this book in particular “to young people and moviegoers of the future”. He also reveals a posthumous letter addressed to Romy Schneider.
It also ensures “that nothing ever happened, as surprising as it may seem”between Brigitte Bardot and him. “For 65 years, we have had the best friendly relations,” he confides. In a handwritten testimony, Bardot says of him that he is “a dominant, hiding his vulnerability by taking refuge in solitude”.
“If I have to die tomorrow, concludes the actor. God grant it to be of love, and paraphrasing Musset, I would like people to say of me: “He often suffered, he was sometimes wrong, but he loved. It is he who lived and not a factitious being created by his pride and boredom.».
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