Alain Delon’s death: Channels shake up programming to pay tribute to French cinema legend

Alain Delon died this Sunday, August 18, at the age of 88. To honor the memory of this sacred monster of French cinema, France Télévisions has decided to change its programs.

France 2:

Sunday, August 18, at 1:15 p.m.:

One Day, One Fate: Alain Delon, The Solitude of the Beast

This documentary by Laurent Allen-Caron looks back on the rich career of the man who will go down in the collective memory of Rocco, Leopard, Samurai and Mr. Klein.

Thanks to previously unpublished youthful images and the testimonies of his brother Jean-François, his daughter, but also one of his first loves, the actress Brigitte Aubert, this portrait reveals the hidden and mysterious side of this legend of the cinema.

Sunday, August 18, a special tribute evening from 9:05 p.m.:

Le Samouraï (1967), Jean-Pierre Melville’s cult thriller with Alain Delon, Francois Perrier, Nathalie Delon.

Jeff Costello, aka Samurai, is an assassin. As he leaves the office where the body of Marte, his latest target, lies, he meets the club’s pianist, Valerie. Despite a good alibi, he is suspected of murder by the commissioner in charge of the investigation. When questioned by him, the pianist pretends not to recognize him. Freed, Jeff tries to understand why the young woman acted like this.

Followed at 22:55 by La Piscine (1969), a thriller with Jacques Deray with Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet.

Jean-Paul and Marianne make the perfect couple and spend happy days at their villa in Saint-Tropez, until the day Harry arrives with his daughter, the fiery Penelope, on his arm. Mariana’s former lover disturbs this peaceful life. The tension is rising.

France 3:

Monday, August 19, at 9:10 p.m.:

Plein Soleil (1960) by René Clement, the film that really introduced the trio of Alain Delon, Marie Laforet, Maurice Rhône to the general public.

Tom Ripley is tasked by an American billionaire, Mr. Greenleaf, to bring back to San Francisco his son Philip, who has been vacationing too long in Italy with his beloved Marge. Tom enters into the couple’s intimate relationship and becomes Philip’s handyman, who forces him to participate in all his adventures and does not stop hating him.

Followed at 23:05 by One Day, One Fate: Alain Delon, The Solitude of the Beast.

France 5:

Friday, August 23 at 9:00 p.m.:

Mr. Klein (1976) Joseph Losey, Alain Delon’s Great Pride in the 1970s with Jeanne Moreau and Michael Lonsdale.

During the German occupation of Paris, Robert Klein, an Alsatian who bought works of art at low prices, received, resubmitted in his name the newspaper Les Informations nationalaux, which was published only by subscription. He soon discovers that a fellow Jew is using his name and decides to follow the trail that will lead him to this stranger.