Summary of Première – Special issue n°26 in homage to Alain Delon

Our final tribute to the Samurai star hits newsstands this Wednesday.

Three years after the death of Jean-Paul Belmondo, he was one of the last sacred monsters of French cinema. Alain Delon died this summer, and the writing of First pays him a final tribute in this special edition.

Alain Delon, a myth that is anything but consensual

In addition to re-sharing numerous archives (Delon has made the cover of our magazine several times, multiplying interviews and unpublished photos during his career), we are also interested in his “B side”his films less famous than Full Sun Or The Cheetah. We also gave the floor to personalities influenced by his work, from Norbert Saada – who notably produced Mr. Klein And Death of a rotten man– to the actress and director Maïwenn, through Benoît Magimel, an actor who has won two Césars in recent years, and we delved into his legacy, particularly on oriental cinema. Not forgetting a portfolio in which Alain Delon himself commented on his classics.

Here is the editorial of this special issue no. 26:

Alain Delon is eternal

Alain Delon died on August 18th. Firstwe have a long time
dreaded having to write these words. Because the star had accompanied this magazine at the same time as our growing cinephilia. Because he had known through his beauty, his ambiguities, his fragilities, to embody a certain idea of ​​cinema.

Alain Delon is dead. But that’s not really new: on screen, he made a specialty of dying – 28 times according to the official count. In silence, under bullets, from a cardiac arrest, drowned, hanged, decapitated, thrown out of a window, in a raid or in a car accident… As if he had decided to choose his end. As if, from the beginning, he had wanted to disappear from a world that didn’t deserve him. “People were always telling me: ‘We see you die in all your films,'” Delon replied to a journalist from Le Monde. “We see me die, because I know how to die. A hero must always know how to die. I loved dying, because it’s a full stop.”

On August 18, Alain Delon wrote the final point. Final? The advantage of legends is that they are immortal. Alain Delon is dead, but Ripley, Tancredi, Rocco, Daniele Dominici or Robert Klein remain, who live forever. Their gestures, their looks, their attitude, their power and their flaws… Delon was first and foremost a movie character. Eternal, therefore.

Gaël Golhen, editor-in-chief.

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