THE LATE ALAIN DELON, IL GATTOPARDO

ALAIN DELON, CLAUDIA, CARDINALE & BURT LANCASTER

On 18 August 2024, French film star Alain Delon (1935) died at the age of 88. From our friends at European Film Star Postcards:

The breathtakingly good-looking James Dean of European cinema in the late 1950s proved in such films as Plein soleil/Purple Noon (1960), Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli/Rocco and his Brothers (1960) and Antonioni's L'eclisse/The Eclipse (1962) that he was also a magnificent actor. Luchino Visconti also directed him in Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (1963) which had extraordinary success and was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Festival of 1963. Recently, the film was shown in a large Visconti retrospective in Paris and again it amazed audiences as a timeless masterpiece.