In Rome, Paris or in the small French city of Nemours, where he lived, the taxes multiply on Wednesday after the death of Claudia Cardinale, “Grande Lady” of the cinema, disappeared after having been directed with the best directors of the twentieth century.
The praise came for the first time in the world of cinema, including Claudia Cardinale, who died on Tuesday at the age of 87, was a global icon, turning almost 150 films with Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Richard Brooks or Sergio Leone.
“She was perhaps the most beautiful star of the most beautiful and rich period of our cinema,” wrote the managers of the legendary Roman studies Cinecittà, Antonio Saccone and Manuela Cacciader, where several of his films were filmed.
On Instagram, the Biennial of Venice, which supervises the famous Mostra, praised the memory of a unique and unforgettable actress who “illuminated the cinema of the Italian and international author.”
Unforgettable in The Guepardo, Once upon a time in the west either Eight and a halfClaudia Cardinale embodied the Italian renewal of the 60s, shone in Hollywood or in France and even in Germany with Werner Herzog.
For the voice of his general delegate Thierry Frémaux, the Cannes Festival paid tribute to an “adventurous, free and burning” Italian “who” won our hearts of movies in the film (…) always with the influence of joy and boldness. “
The Italian and French heads of state joined their voices to this actress born in the Goulette, Tunisia, on April 15, 1938, a French mother and a Sicilian father.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella spoke of “an extraordinary artist, an unforgettable heroine of Italian and international cinema”, while his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron was brushing the portrait of an artist in love with “Libertad.”
“Claudia Cardinale embodied (…) a look, a talent that added so much to the works of the best, from Rome to Hollywood, and Paris, whom she chooses as homeland,” he wrote in X.
At age 17, Claudia Cardinale had won a beauty contest that had not been presented and that gave life to tips. Invited to the Mostra de Venice, he had electrified the world of cinema before turning, at age 22, in Rocco and his brothers (1960) By Luchino Visconti.
The Italian director will give him a few years later one of his greatest papers in The GuepardoTogether with Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster, in 1963.
“She shook my life”
A world star, the actress, however, lived in “simple and humble way, in her image,” said her daughter Claudia Squitieri to the AFP who lived with her in Nemours, in the Paris region, in an eclectic place that took refuge her house and the Fondazione Claudia Cardinale, a place of reception and promotion of young artists.
“I am very happy to have been able to share in recent years with her, at the party and in the very bubbly life of this place,” said Claudia Squitieri. “I think she was happy here.”
At the green door of his house, some anonymous came to put Flores on Wednesday, such as Patricia, very moved to pay tribute to a “great lady.” “She shook my whole life,” the sixties told AFP.
“I often talked aboutOnce upon a time in the west“, Remember another neighbor, Frédéric Renard.” And every time, she told me: “But you know, I made other movies”, and I told her the “backstage” of filming.
“People have always had a lot of love towards her,” summarizes her daughter, “full of phases of her life.”
Source: BFM TV
