Claudia Cardinale at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Cannes Film Festival 2010 images: Claudia Cardinale attends the premiere of Luchino Visconti’s recently restored The Leopard
Claudia Cardinale arrives at the premiere of the new restoration of Luchino Visconti’s 1963 Palme d’Or winner The Leopard / Il gattopardo, held at the Palais des Festivals on May 14, during the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Adapted by Visconti, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Enrico Medioli, and Massimo Franciosa from Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa’s sprawling novel, The Leopard also features Alain Delon (you can see part of him in the photo above), Burt Lancaster, Paolo Stoppa, Romolo Valli, Pierre Clémenti, Terence Hill, and Giuliano Gemma.
Other Luchino Visconti films include, Ossessione (1943), an unofficial adaptation of James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, starring Massimo Girotti and Clara Calamai; Bellissima (1952), starring Anna Magnani and Walter Chiari; and Rocco and His Brothers, starring Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, and Annie Girardot, and featuring Claudia Cardinale in a supporting role.
Besides her collaborations with Luchino Visconti, Claudia Cardinale has been featured in about 90 films. Among them Federico Fellini’s 8½ (1963), with Marcello Mastroianni and Anouk Aimée; Richard Brooks’ The Professionals (1966), with Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin; and Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), with Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, and Charles Bronson.
Upcoming Claudia Cardinale movies
According to the IMDb, Claudia Cardinale currently has three films in post-production:
- Nicole Garcia’s A View of Love / Un balcon sur la mer, with Marie-Josée Croze and Jean Dujardin.
- Ali Ilhan’s Being Italian with Signora Enrica / Diventare italiano con la signora Enrica, with Ismail Hacioglu and Lavinia Longhi.
- Gianni Amelio’s The First Man / Le Premier homme, based on Albert Camus’ novel.
Claudia Cardinale image: Venturelli | WireImage.
Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon: The Leopard stars were reunited at the 2010 Cannes premiere.
Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon
Pictured above are Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, and Cannes Film Festival President Gilles Jacob (mostly hidden behind Delon’s outstretched arms) at the premiere of the newly restored The Leopard.
Besides his collaborations with Luchino Visconti, Alain Delon has been featured in more than 80 films since the late 1950s, among them René Clément’s Purple Noon (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse (1962), Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï (1967), and Joseph Losey’s Mr. Klein (1976).
Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon image: Venturelli | WireImage.
Anouchka Delon
Alain Delon is seen above with his The Leopard costar Claudia Cardinale and his daughter Anouchka Delon. The 19-year-old Delon has been featured in only one movie to date: José Pinheiro’s made-for-TV production Le lion (2003), based on a novel by Joseph Kessel (Belle de Jour, The Army of Shadows).
Set in Kenya during the Mau-Mau uprising of the 1950s, the TV movie features Anouchka Delon as a young girl who befriends the title character. Ornella Mutti and Alain Delon play, respectively, the girl’s mother and stepfather.
This French television production was a remake (or reboot) of Jack Cardiff’s The Lion (1962), which starred Pamela Franklin as the girl, Capucine as her mother, Trevor Howard as her stepfather, and William Holden as the man whose presence leads to family conflicts. (Heino Ferch apparently plays Holden’s role in the remake.)
Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, and Anouchka Delon image: Venturelli | WireImage.
Alain Delon and daughter Anouchka Delon.
Alain Delon and Anouchka Delon image: Swarovski | WireImage.
Claudia Cardinale and Best Director Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese.
Claudia Cardinale and Martin Scorsese
Veteran Claudia Cardinale, with cigarette in hand, and director Martin Scorsese, possibly naming The Leopard and Sandra as his two favorite Cardinale movies (notice his fingers), are seen above at the Vanity Fair and Gucci Party honoring Scorsese.
Claudia Cardinale and Martin Scorsese image: Daniele Venturelli | WireImage for Gucci.
Luca Argentero & Myriam Catania
Model and David di Donatello nominee Luca Argentero (Different from Whom, 2009) and actress Myriam Catania attend the Vanity Fair and Gucci party honoring Martin Scorsese at the Hotel Du Cap Eden Roc on May 15.
Luca Argentero and Myriam Catania image: Daniele Venturelli | WireImage for Gucci.
Matthew Macfadyen.
Matthew Macfadyen
Matthew Macfadyen, Mr. Darcy in Joe Wright’s popular 2005 film version of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, is seen wearing a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Grande GMT at the gala opening of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival: a screening of Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, and in which Macfadyen has a supporting role as the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Matthew Macfadyen image: © Olivia Blaizac | ENIGMA | WireImage.com.
Isabelle Huppert.
Isabelle Huppert
13-time César Award nominee Isabelle Huppert attends the premiere of Bertrand Tavernier’s Palme d’Or contender The Princess of Montpensier at the Palais des Festivals. (But it will likely not win.) The period romantic drama is set during the reign of Charles IX, when followers of different Christian sects (Catholics and Protestants) were at each other’s throats.
The Princess of Montpensier stars Mélanie Thierry in the title role, in addition to Gaspard Ulliel, Lambert Wilson, and Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet.
According to the film’s notes, Tavernier decided to adapt Madame de la Fayette’s 17th-century novel because he wanted to make a “love story that was both lyrical and epic in nature.” The director added that after shooting In the Electric Mist in the United States he felt “the visceral urge to dive into a profoundly French project.”
Isabelle Huppert image: Swarovski | WireImage.
Kate Beckinsale: Restored The Leopard premiere at Cannes Film Festival.
Kate Beckinsale
Pearl Harbor and The Aviator actress Kate Beckinsale, best known for playing action heroine Selene in the Underworld movie franchise, is pictured above at the premiere of the restored The Leopard.
Kate Beckinsale image: Venturelli | WireImage.
Aishwarya Rai at The Leopard premiere.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan movies
Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan attends the premiere of The Leopard.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan image: Getty Images.
Giovanna Mezzogiorno: Jaeger-LeCoultre watch and jury member.
Giovanna Mezzogiorno: Cannes Film Festival
Giovanna Mezzogiorno attends the Jury Photocall at the Palais des Festivals during the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Giovanna Mezzogiorno image: Jaeger-LeCoultre | WireImage.com. Mezzogiorno’s watch Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Twinkling Diamonds.
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Cannes Film Festival website.