End clap for Alain Delon?
The
"last film"
he was preparing with director Patrice Leconte will not see the light of day.
Baptized
The empty house
, the idea is at the initiative of the 86-year-old actor.
The latter mentioned it for the first time during an interview in December 2016. The two men were invited to the
8:30 p.m. set on Sunday
for the publication of
L'Encyclopédie Delon
, a book in which the filmmaker reviews the career of the actor.
Affirming that it was
"almost"
finished, Alain Delon took the opportunity to reveal, to the surprise of his friend, an ultimate desire:
"I still have a dream, it is to make a last film with Patrice [Leconte].”
An unforeseen project of which the director of Les
Bronzés
hastened to sketch the contours.
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"With Jérôme Tonnerre [also screenwriter for
Maigret
, Patrice Leconte's latest production, editor's note] we wrote a tailor-made screenplay for him, with a story that is both twilight and luminous
", confided a few weeks ago for
Ecran Total
.
He would have interpreted a man who meets a young woman whose role I had entrusted to Juliette Binoche.
The film was centered on the exchanges between these two characters who would save each other while they were both lost in their respective lives
.
Anxious to make his last film
Almost six years after the declarations of Alain Delon,
The empty house
is at a standstill.
Victim of a stroke in June 2019, just a few weeks after receiving the honorary palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival, the Samurai did not officially reappear in public until two years later, during a large portrait televised.
"I'll be active before I die, because I intend to make one last film - and not just any film.
And then I can leave.
I will have nothing else to do, ”
confided the actor for
TV5 Monde
.
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This feature film will not be that of Patrice Leconte.
For
Ecran Total
, the director who received a Caesarean award in 1996 for
Ridicule
plays the card of honesty.
This project was initially postponed due to "
health problems"
.
Filming was postponed by force of circumstance, so that when “
he was available again, Juliette Binoche was no longer available
”.
"In truth, I think that Alain Delon was perhaps anxious at the idea of making his last film"
, specifies the director.
A position reiterated at the microphone of
RFM
,
February 20: “
I think that Delon, with all the friendship and admiration that I have for him, the fact of announcing his last film, it is a bit as if he was going to shoot it and die afterwards
.
A state of mind present in the actor since the death of Jean-Paul Belmondo, in September.
“I am completely devastated.
There I will try to hang on to not do the same thing in five hours … Mind you, it would not be bad if we both left together
, ”he said, sobbing in his voice, on
CNews
.
Far from thinking then, as he often said during his career, that for an actor as for a head of state, there is no retirement age.