Several hundred people, including several film personalities, attended the funeral in Paris of the Franco -abalian actress Claudia Cardinale, a great figure in the Italian cinema in the 1960s on Tuesday, died last Tuesday in 87 in the Paris region.
Among them were present in particular Yvan Attal, Nicolas Bedos or Georges Beller, who performed by their side in OilFilm released in 1971 and gathering the two female icons of the time, Claudia Cardinale and Brigitte Bardot.
Other personalities helped there, such as the outgoing Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, Jack Lang, Nikos Aliagas or the president of the Ile-De-France region, Valérie Pécresse, said an AFP journalist. Producer Alain Terzian, actor Patrick Préjean, actress Catherine Jacob was also present.
Claudia Cardinale’s coffin, in light wood, entered the Saint-Rock Church in the center of Paris under the applause of the crowd, to the sound of the music of “He was from Once in the West”, composed of Ennio Morricone.
A Mass in La Guleta
Claudia Cardinale had shared the poster with Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda in this 1968 film directed by Sergio Leone, for one of her best roles.
“As usual, my mother caught her departure as a walking train,” he praised his daughter Claudia, who thanked Tunisia for organizing a Mass on Tuesday in La Goulette, in Tunisia, where Claudia Cardinale was born on April 15, 1938.
“He was a great actress, my favorite. He was born in Tunisia, wanted to pay tribute,” said Mourad, an anonymous admirer who wears the Tunisian flag on the steps of the church.
“She only accepted her fame to support the cause of women, homosexuals and patients with AIDS,” said his friend René de Ceccaty, writer and translator, insisting on his friendship with the famous American actor Rock Hudson, Death of AIDS in 1985.
At the foot of the Saint-Rock church, a photograph of the white and black actress who danced on a desktop was placed.
Cremation in privacy
Taken in 1959 in Rome, it had been used to illustrate the poster of the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
Claudia Cardinale’s family invited those who want to make a donation to the base that bears her name and that she created with her daughter in Nemours a structure to welcome and promote young artists.
A Mass will be held on Wednesday in this commune of Sena-Et-Marne, where he lived with his daughter. The cremation will take place in family intimacy on Thursday.
Source: BFM TV
