Word: delon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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French Movie Hero Alain Delon has covered himself with real-life gloire by pulling off a dramatic rescue. What he saved was one of the great historic documents of modern France-the manuscript of Charles de Gaulle's resounding, rallying cry to Frenchmen during the dark days of June 1940. "France has lost a battle! But France has not lost the war!" De Gaulle wrote from the Free French headquarters that he had established in London. "France . . . will regain her liberty and her grandeur. Such is my goal, my only goal!" The single sheet on which the 131-word...
Moreau hates the cold, so she decided to do a ski-fashion layout as a photographic comic book, shot in a studio. She commissioned Playwright Françoise Dorin to write the scenario and got Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant and Actress Nathalie Delon (Alain's ex) to ham it up while modeling the necessary ski clothes. To caption 21 displays of Christmas-gift ideas, Moreau wrote poetry, which is reproduced in her own handwriting and reveals a whimsical side of the serious seductress...
...other films, Jon Voight flashes a box of Colgate shaving cream, Jack Lemmon munches on Cracker Jack, and Starlet Linda Scott sports a tight T shirt with the name of Bell Helmets rippling across her chest. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon, in their latest flick, wear hats made by Italy's G. Borsalino & Fratello Co. The film's title: Borsaliuo. Photographs from the movie are now being used to promote hats in shops...
...plot could have been lifted from a 1933 story conference at Warner Brothers. Siffredi (Alain Delon) is a petty crook, all bile and brilliantine, who goes looking for his girl friend Lola (Catherine Rouvel) after his latest prison term has expired. Stalking the streets of Marseille, he finally finds her happily biding her time with a nattily tailored sharpie named Capella (Jean-Paul Belmondo). Siffredi immediately initiates repossession proceedings. Capella only grins. Siffredi glowers. Capella still grins. Then, of course, they fight. After knocking each other around for a while, over pool tables, into mirrors, across bars, that sort...
Like its two heroes, Borsalino sets itself up for the kill. It is not clever enough to be a successful parody and not tough enough to be a good genre piece. Delon moves through the picture like a still-warm stiff en route to a comfortable slab in the morgue, but Belmondo, mugging furiously and retaining just the right air of detachment, compensates by providing enough energy for this and at least three other movies. The music is loud and engaging and so are the costumes, which look like something from an old Esquire layout. Men's clothes, indeed...