The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)

 

A married woman leaves her husband and zooms off on her motorcycle to see her lover. 

Artsy and pretentious exploitation movie seems to have been mainly made to show Marianne Faithfull in leather and various stages of undress, plus some psychedelic sequences as a reference to the zeitgeist; nicely photographed, though.

Halliwell (no star): "An incredibly plotless and ill-conceived piece sub-porn claptrap, existing only as a long series of colour supplement photographs."

Maltin**: "Cardiff also photographed this oddity: a mod, psychedelic, existential tale..." 

L'eclisse (1962)

Il gattopardo (1963)

On the set: Burt Lancaster, Romy Schneider, Alain Delon and Luchino Visconti

Histoires extraordinaires (1968)

Il gattopardo (1963)

Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon at the premiere of Il Gattopardo at the Cannes Film Festival

La Veuve Couderc (1971)

A thug who is on the run takes his refuge in a widow's farm.

Excellent Simenon adaptation is less crime thriller and rather a moving psychological drama with a tinge of romance.

Mélodie en sous-sol (1963)

A sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability and enlists a former cellmate to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.

Highly entertaining heist thriller is both suspenseful and full of dry humour; Jean Gabin is, as always, a joy to watch.

Maltin**1/2: "Some tense climactic moments."

L'Eclisse (1962)

On the set: Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti & Alain Delon

L'Eclisse (1962)

Un Flic (1972)

After a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan an even more elaborate- and more risky- second heist.

A crime drama with style, good performances and some good direction, but slow in pace and not quite suspenseful.

Halliwell (no star): "Glum investigation of betrayal in which atmosphere is all, but not enough to sustain interest."

Maltin**1/2: "Pedestrian melodrama...Delon and Crenna are muscular, Deneuve and the scenery gorgeous."

Les Aventuriers (1967)

Un Amour de Swann (1984)

When the elegant and educated bachelor Charles Swann falls in love with a courtesan, his friends in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890's warn him against marriage.

Well produced with top credentials in all departments, the result is a unloving, coldly calculated adaptation of Proust's story; alone Hans Werner Henze's excellent score gives an impression of what this movie could have been.

Halliwell**: "Reasonably successful attempt to film part of an unfilmable book. Comparisons with Letter From an Unknown Woman are inevitable."

Maltin**1/2: "Lavish but lifeless telescoping of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past with Irons surprisingly stiff...Redeemed somewhat by the latter [Ornella Muti] and Delon (as a homosexual baron), a sexy under-the-covers scene, and Sven Nykvist photography. "

Alain Delon

Adieu l'ami (1968)

 

 

After an overseas deployment, two former French Foreign Legion members plan to break into the vault of a French corporation.

 

Unusual French thriller contains some scenes of surrealist quality; however, the misogynist tenor of the plot is quite disagreeable.

 

Maltin**: "Ordinary and overlong." 

Alain Delon

Les aventuriers (1967)

Alain Delon

L'eclisse (1962)

On the set: Alain Delon and Michelangelo Antonioni

The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)

On the set: Jack Cardiff, Marianne Faithfull and Alain Delon

Alain Delon

Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Delon