Alain Delon, the French actor, has died at the age of 88

An exaggerated beauty, an endless charm, a career of the highest level. Alain Delon He died this morning at his home in Douchy, with his three children, Alain Fabien, Anouchka and Anthony, at his side.

«Alain Fabien, Anouchka and Anthony, along with (his dog) Loubo, are deeply saddened to announce the death of their father.. He passed away peacefully in his home in Douchy, surrounded by his three children and his family. […] His family asks you to respect his privacy in this extremely painful time of mourning.” the family said in a joint statement.

Alain Delon is dead but they will remain forever Rocco Parondi of the film of Luchino Visconti Rocco and his brothersand it will remain the Prince Tancredi of the The Leopardin that unforgettable dance with Claudia Cardinale. Alan Delon will remain alive in his memorable characters, in his brilliant and unstoppable career.

She was a sex symbol, a style icon who acted with the greatest. Michelangelo Antonioni he chose him next to Monica Vitti in The eclipse (1962), awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. In the same year Delon worked for the first time with the actor Jean Gabin in Any Number Can Winplaying a criminal duo who plans the robbery of a casino in Cannes. The film is appreciated by critics and audiences and Delon tries his luck in Hollywood, but his American films are not as successful and so he returns to Europe, where he reconnects with some old relationships. With Romy Schneider – his great love from 1959 to 1963 – plays the couple engulfed in sexual jealousy in the film The swimming pool (1969) by Jacques Deray. That year he also reunited with Gabin and Henri Verneuil in the French gangster film The Sicilian Clan.

With Monica Vitti, 86, in 1962, on the set of Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse.

But it is the collaboration with the master of nouvelle vague Jean-Pierre Melville which gives Alain Delon the most important opportunity of his entire career. Delon’s angelic gaze is chosen to play the role of the lone hitman in the neo-noir film The Samurai. The film in Italian is translated Frank Costello Angel Face. Delon and Melville made two more films together, The Nameless And Night on the city. Since the late 1990s, Alain Delon had withdrawn from the screen, rarely appearing on public occasions.

In Saint-Tropez in June 1966 with his son Anthony, 53, with his wife Nathalie.

Alain Delon, a life of overwhelming love

Born to a pork butcher, as he often recalled, a soldier in Indochina, a fiery character. EAlain Delon had great passions and long love affairs Romy Schneider to Francine Canovas to Mireille Darc to Rosalie Van Breemen. He said of himself: «I did three things well: my job, stupid things and my children.».

The eldest of three children, had with Nathalie Canovas, is Anthony, born in 1964. While from his partner Rosalie Van Breemen was born in 1990 the daughter Anouchka, defined by Alain Delon «the love of my life» and, in 1994, Alain Fabien. In the last few months, a lot of news has been circulating about the difficult relationships between children to establish how and where to treat the father. But still the most complicated were those between the three of them and their father’s last partnerHiromi Rollin, who accused them of «attempted murder» for having suspended his father’s palliative care. The actor, bitter and ill, had lost the will to live: «I want to die, my life is over”he had told a doctor. After all, he was not afraid of the end, he had always admired the choice of Ernest Hemingway and Roman Gary: “Suicide is a thing for great men.”