Delon gets ready for Cannes honour
People can say what they want, I’m used to it. But there’s nothing to be said about my career. It’s irreproachable — Alain Delon, German star in Cannes a go-to actor for H’wood Experiences made Moore back AIDS documentary
Cannes: France’s Alain Delon, set on Sunday to receive an honorary prize at Cannes that has sparked scrutiny of his views on women and same-sex couples, said in a newspaper interview that as an actor at least, he was beyond reproach.
“People can say what they want, I’m used to it. But there’s nothing to be said about my career. It’s irreproachable,” Delon, 83, was quoted as saying in the Journal Du Dimanche (JDD).
One of Europe’s most acclaimed actors for more than five decades and
particularly admired in his native France, Delon has starred in films including Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard, which won the top prize at Cannes’ cinema showcase in 1963. But he has also inflamed public opinion over the years, including by declaring his friendship for far-right politician French Jean-Marie Le Pen and has admitted to slapping women. Delon stood by some of his views in the interview and said other comments attributed to him had been distorted. “I’m not against gay marriage, I don’t care: people should do as they please,” he told the JDD. “But I’m against adoption by two people of the same sex.” “I said I’d slapped a woman? Yes. And I should have added that I’ve received more slaps than I’ve ever given. I’ve never harassed a woman in my life. They, however, harassed me a lot.” Cannes: He’s played an SS assassin for Quentin Tarantino and shared a bed with Angelina Jolie in a spy thriller. While you might not know his name, you’re about to hear an awful lot more about August Diehl.
In his first starring role at Cannes, the German actor has stepped into the role of a lifetime as antiNazi martyr Franz Jaegerstaetter in A Hidden Life, a World War II true-story adaptation by Hollywood legend Terrence Malick.
The notoriously reclusive Malick, who rarely gives interviews or shows his face on the red carpet, is expected to skip Cannes, leaving Diehl to play ambassador for the film.
The picture is billed as a return to narrative form for Malick, the director of Badlands and The Thin Red Line, after the philosophical musings of ◗ In his first starring role at Cannes, Diehl has stepped into the role of a lifetime as anti-Nazi martyr Franz Jaegerstaetter in A Hidden Life, a World War II true-story adaptation by Hollywood legend Terrence Malick
recent films including his 2011 Cannes winner The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt.
In the film, Diehl portrays the Austrian conscientious objector Jaegerstaetter, who refused to serve in Hitler’s army on religious grounds and was sentenced to death at age 36.
As for most Germanspeaking actors with Hollywood dreams, World Visitors look at a digital art installation called ‘Forest of Flowers and People: Lost, Immersed and Reborn’ at the Mori Building Digital Art Museum in Tokyo on Sunday. ◗ The 43-year-old German actor burst onto the international scene with a small but iconic part in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds next to Austria’s Christoph Waltz, who would win an Oscar for his portrayal of the erudite, vicious SS Colonel Hans Landa
War II is rarely far away as a subject. Diehl, 43, burst onto the international scene with a small but iconic part in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds next to Austria’s Christoph Waltz, who would win an Oscar for his portrayal of the erudite, vicious Colonel Hans Landa. At his side, Diehl played Landa’s brash counterpart Dieter Hellstrom, a Gestapo officer stationed in France. In a pivotal scene in a tavern, Hellstrom unmasks Michael Fassbender’s character as a British spy by the way he orders a round of drinks. Through most of his career, Diehl has embraced the path of a character actor rather than a leading man. SS Chinese model Ming Xi C a n n e s : Oscar-winning actress Julianne Moore said her experience of caring for someone infected with the AIDS virus had spurred her decision to help promote the documentary 5B about the unsung heroes who looked after AIDS sufferers in the 1980s.
The film, screened during the first week of the Cannes Film Festival, tells the story of Ward 5B at the San Francisco General Hospital, the first specialist care unit for people with HIV/AIDs in the United States. In an interview with Reuters at Cannes, Moore, 58, said she lost a friend to the virus just after graduating from college.
“It was the end of 1984 and it was a friend who had gone to Mexico, and everyone said he had caught the flu — and he died two weeks later and I was shocked,” Moore said.
Later on the actress, whose best known films include Magnolia and The Hours, came to help care for an AIDS sufferer at a hospital in New York where friends and family were allowed to come in look after patients. — Reuters Julianne Moore