Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic: “It was more than a star: a French monument”
Jack Lang, former Minister of Culture: “It was world glory”
“I had the privilege of developing a very personal relationship with him. This may seem strange, because I belong to the left movement, she herself had ideas that took her rather to the extreme right at times. But beyond politics, there was complicity in art, in culture, in life,” the former Minister of Culture testifies to BFMTV this Sunday morning. He hails “A worldly glory.”
Gilles Jacob, former president of the Cannes Film Festival: “A lion in greatness”
“A lion in majesty, an actor with a gaze of steel […] everything will be designed with and everything controlled except for its ending,” reacted the former president of the Cannes Film Festival Gilles Jacob.
“It's a relief for him, because his illness was terrible, it's the only thing in his life that he couldn't control,” he also reacted to Franceinfo. “I'm sure where he is, he's better,” he adds.
Director Philippe Labro: “He was inhabited by grace”
Claudia Cardinale, Italian actress: “The prom is over”
“The ball is over. Tancredi went dancing with the stars…”, Italian actress Claudia Cardinale reacted to the disappearance of Alain Delon, her partner in “The Leopard”.
Referring to Tancrède, the character played by Alain Delon in Luchino Visconti's cult film The Cheetah (1963), Claudia Cardinale added: “I am asked to put words… but the sadness is far too intense. I join the pain of his children, his loved ones, his fans…”.
“Per semper tua (Yours forever), Angelica,” concludes Claudia Cardinale, signing the name of her own character in the film, which received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.