Starring Alain Delon - Criterion Channel Teaser

The beautiful boy of French cinema whose steely, ice-blue gaze betrayed more than a hint of danger, Alain Delon was a favorite of modernists like Luchino Visconti, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Michelangelo Antonioni, all of whom were seduced by his impossible good looks and air of cool detachment. This selection of many of Delon’s finest moments spotlights his star-making performance as the gorgeous, duplicitous Tom Ripley in René Clément’s Patricia Highsmith adaptation PURPLE NOON; his career-defining turn as a zen contract killer in Melville’s LE SAMOURAÏ; his sizzling chemistry with a leather-clad Marianne Faithfull in Jack Cardiff’s X-rated counterculture head-trip THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE; his subtle portrayal of an amoral art dealer mixed up in a case of mistaken identity in Joseph Losey’s unsung classic MR. KLEIN; and more. Watch our Starring Alain Delon series now on the Criterion Channel: