Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford: handsome and professionals

Good degree actors and actresses there are a lot of. Guipas actors and actresses, too. However actors and actresses who on the identical time have been nice professionals, high quality performers and in addition had an important magnificence, there haven’t been tons of of them both.

Within the brief house of 10 days, the world has identified the top of the lifetime of two beauties that stuffed the screens with its single presence. Two myths of the cinema of the 60s and 70s, field workplace as few. And each, with their preliminary doubles: CC, Claudia Cardinale (so many occasions competing with BB, Brigitte Bardot, keep in mind the oil corporations, shot in 1971 in Colmenar Viejo) and RR, Robert Redford.

Who writes to them was misplaced in love with the cardinale, when for the primary time he noticed it, in a double program of the continual session neighborhood (I now not keep in mind if within the Benlliure or within the Carlton of my neighborhood): Cartouche, giving Jean Paul Belmondo reproduction. As I hated Bebel for having the chance to shoot subsequent to CC, the Sicilian born in Tunisia was not often extra lovely than in that PHILIPPE Broca’s swordsman. Then, after all, I might see it in his first position, Rufúfú (I soliti ignoti), simply turned 20 years previous and filling a movie that in itself overflowed with stars: Gassman, Mastroianni, Totó.

After which, being Muse of Visconti, that great waltz with Delon (I additionally hated you, Alain) within the catpardo or in a small position in Rocco and his brothers. Claudia visited – and cherished – Madrid again in 1964, and rolled the fabulous world of the circus, when Hathaway emptied the pond of retirement to mount an enormous circus tent of a present that dominated on the John Wayne display.

They have been the years of the European Cups of Di Stéfano, Gento and Santamaría, and though it isn’t documented that the cardinale went to the Bernabéu, it did go to dinner proper in entrance of the Alduccio restaurant, which nonetheless exists. And bets are admitted for some evening to coincide with Don Alfredo, since Alduccio was considered one of his favourite eating places. And from its terrace the doorways of the southern background have been contemplated, the place a lot of the targets of the meringue enclosure have been marked and celebrated.

He’s not remembered a single mediocre interpretation to Doña Claudia, and two jewels of the Western, the professionals (Richard Brooks) and till his time got here (Sergio Leone), they’d their unpaid presence: professionals like her there have been few, and the music of Ennio Morricone of the Spaghetti Western par excellence, through which Henry Fonda provides life to one of the crucial perverse villains of probably the most perverse villains of probably the most perverse villains of the Historical past, sounds in our stadium each time there’s a minute of silence that strikes everybody current.

CC up to date was rr. One went at age 89, the opposite at 87. Two stars of which, sadly, they’re only a few, to not say any. And though they agreed over time, and even in the identical years in Spain (Claudia usually visited Madrid, cherished Toledo and rolled a number of occasions in Almería, whereas Robert spent lengthy seasons within the mid -60 A photograph of each collectively, not even on the Cannes or Venice festivals, the place they each attended usually.

Redford was a bit like a David Beckham of cinema. His physique was so engaging, his easy presence in a forged or in a shot already made all eyes, each males and particularly ladies, have been in direction of him. Maybe for that motive – maybe – was by no means thought of an actor of legend, though he had excellent interpretations that all of us keep in mind by coronary heart. As Beckham, his lovely physicist might hurt him, since he was at all times thought of earlier than as a star who as a very good actor.

In actual fact, Hollywood rewarded him with a statuette as finest director in 1980 (present folks) which he ever managed to interpret (solely nominated as secondary for the coup). Lastly, in 2002, he raised an honorary Oscar all through his profession, as an actor and as director. Regardless of having starred glorious roles just like the three days of the condor, all the boys of the president or memoirs of Africa, in these strains we are going to keep together with his work in one of the crucial Actual Madrid movies in historical past: the adventures of Jeremiah Johnson (1972), directed by his nice buddy, Sydney Pollack.

On this tape, remembered as an exquisite succession of Utah postcards (the place he would later create his well-known Swimber Institute and stay there quite a few years, till the day of his dying), Johnson is an adventurer who has to combat in opposition to every little thing: the metalological components, mom nature, wildlife, the grasping traffickers, the enemy Indian tribes. The movie is gorgeous from starting to finish and, even supposing the landscapes are great, all revolves round Redford, which, in a deeply Madrid perspective, is thrown behind all of them the hazards that lurk, face them and, in most events, it’s the winner of all the weather, in opposition to every little thing and in opposition to all.

As well as, as CC, RR was at all times a full skilled, director and prestigious producer (the river of life, the person who whispered to the horses), an activist in favor of the safety of nature with out turning into an illiberal taliban, discoverer of abilities and adalid of unbiased cinema (by his Sunday competition, which took his identify from his well-known character of two males and a vacation spot of two males and a vacation spot.

Claudia and Robert, lovers of the Spain of the 60s, the time of Madrid Yeyés, excellent archetypes of lovely, professionals and winners. Let’s not cry for them, let’s return to their movies time and again.

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