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2023 Full coverage I 2022 Full coverage Festival / Market I 2021 Full coverage / Sample of newsletters ARCHIVES: Video gallery I Image gallery I Conference Future of Cinema in Cannes I PROMOTE YOUR FILM I VIDEO SERVICES IN CANNES Filmfestivals.com has become the number 1 online media on cannes with 1300 articles published for the 3 past editions. 10 newsletters reaching close to 2 M film professionals...Alain Delon, Honorary Palme d'or at the 72nd Festival de CannesAlain Delon © Harcourt In 2019, the Festival de Cannes has decided to award Alain Delon with an Honorary Palme d'or to pay tribute to his wonderful presence in the history of film.
"Pierre Lescure and I are delighted that Alain Delon has accepted to be honoured by the Festival," says Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate. He hesitated for a long time, having long been reluctant to this Palme d'or because he thought he should only come to Cannes to celebrate the directors he had been working with."
We're talking about a giant, a living legend and a global icon. In Japan, where he is revered, he is even known as the Spring Samurai. More than 80 films, countless masterpieces and superlatives are testament to the artistic reach and international aura of a man who burst onto the scene in Purple Noon (1960), a crime film and ode to his incredible beauty. René Clément invented Delon in this film. A diamond in the rough, he was just 25 at the time.
His connection with the Festival de Cannes dates back to the start of his career. On 13 May 1961, his first walk up the red carpet steps for The Joy of Living, presented in the Official Selection, was met with great excitement as photographers and journalists mingled with hundreds of admirers. The crowd was no less enthusiastic 30 years later following his spectacular arrival by helicopter and boat to present New Wave. In the meantime, there was The Eclipse (1962), The Leopard (1963) and Mr. Klein (1976). "There is so much of myself in that film," he said of the latter in a recent interview with Samuel Blumenfeld for Le Monde. My love of paintings, the ambiguous relationship between people and this sort of game where I'm Mr Klein without knowing why. Being and not wanting to be, while being him."
Alain Delon has often attended the Festival de Cannes. He has presented the Palme d'or, attended the Festival 60th anniversary ceremonies and come to Cannes Classics to support restorations of some of his favourite films. In recent years, he has also been seen in theatre with his daughter Anouchka. Alain Delon has now said his acting days are over. But he has one regret. "There is one thing I've missed out on that will always haunt me: I would have liked to have been directed by a woman before I die."
The 72nd International Film Festival will run from 14 to 25 May 2019. The Jury will be chaired by Alejandro González Inárritu. Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don’t Die will open the Competition.
18.04.2019 | Cannes's blog Cat. : PEOPLE
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