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  Monica Vitti death: Legendary Italian actor dies aged 90

  Vitti was best known for her roles in Michelangelo Antonioni films

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  'Queen of Italian cinema' Monica Vitti dies aged 90

  Italian actress Monica Vitti, best known for her roles in films by Michelangelo Antonioni, who also starred with French actor Alain Delon in the 1960s and won several international cinema awards, has died aged 90. "Goodbye Monica Vitti, goodbye queen of Italian cinema. Today is a truly sad day, we have lost a great artist and a great Italian," Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said in a statement.Monica Vitti shot to international fame with the 1960 drama L'Avventura ("The Adventure") in which

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  Jean-Paul Belmondo: Legend of French New Wave cinema

  Starring in films such as ‘Breathless’ and ‘Les Miserables’, Belmondo became a pillar of French mainstream film

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  Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of Breathless, dies aged 88

  Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of Breathless, dies aged 88. Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 classic made Belmondo a major star and his craggy looks led to a stellar career in France and around the world

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  She’ll be your mirror: Who was the real Nico?

  Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground are only part of the story of this multifaceted German artist. Kevin E G Perry talks to biographer Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, whose new book lifts the veil on a life shrouded in myth and mystery

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  You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone review – Nico as the gothic Garbo

  You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone review – Nico as the gothic Garbo. Jennifer Otter Bickerdike’s biography is absorbing and informative but paints a flattering portrait of the enigmatic model turned singer

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  French cinema fumes over claims it is still addicted to smoking

  Old habits die hard. Decades after Brigitte Bardot and Alain Delon turned smoking into a weapon of mass seduction, French cinema is still addicted to tobacco, with cigarettes featuring in almost all homegrown feature films, a new study has found. Smoking gets 2.6 minutes of screen time on average per film - the equivalent of six adverts, according to a report by the French League Against Cancer. "Tobacco remains quasi-ubiquitous in French films," said the League, whose president Axel Kahn added

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  Nathalie Delon, beguiling French actress noted for Le Samouraï, and a fixture in the gossip columns – obituary

  Nathalie Delon, the actress, who has died aged 79, was a glamorous, quintessentially French beauty who appeared in more than 30 films in the 1960s and 1970s, but was best-known in France for her tempestuous marriage to its leading film star of the era, Alain Delon. Their first meeting, in a Paris nightclub in 1962, was not propitious. She asked him to stand up so that she could retrieve her handbag, on which he was sitting. He responded to her request with the verbal equivalent of two fingers an

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  Champagne heir 'conned' out of fizz and fortune after swallowing offer to be 'secret agent'

  A French policeman tasked with protecting VIPs is among five charged with swindling a Champagne heir out of his bubbly and fortune by convincing him he had been recruited as a secret agent. The five, including an interior ministry staffer, are accused of luring the gullible producer of 450,000 bottles per year into handing over tens of thousands in fizz and cash. The money was supposed to pay for a raft of increasingly outlandish “missions” they claimed involved the Moroccan royal family, ex-US

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  First Love review – a bloody slice of Tokyo pulp fiction

  First Love review – a bloody slice of Tokyo pulp fiction. Director Takashi Miike plays to his strengths in a flamboyantly violent boy-meets-girl crime caper

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