Anyone interested in discovering the works of on DVD would do well to start with “Purple Noon,” “Rocco and His Brothers,” “L’Eclisse,” “The Leopard” and “Le Samourai” — pics that paired the French dreamboat with Europe’s top auteurs. Vsphere License Key Generator. But Delon made a lot of movies, not all of them masterpieces, and the five selections included in Lionsgate’s new three-disc collection offer a logical next step for anyone obsessed with the singularly handsome and disarmingly serious star. Landing squarely on the guilty-pleasure end of the spectrum, these pics rewind to a time when French cinema was at its most chic. More Reviews Enormously popular in his day, Delon remains largely undiscovered by younger viewers, and the assortment contained within this box set reveals surprising range for the pretty-boy screen idol.

Covering a span of some 17 years but concentrated around the late-’60s/early-’70s peak of his popularity, the films find Delon as a lover (“Swimming Pool”) and a fighter (“The Widow Couderc”), playing a brainwashed millionaire one moment (“Diabolically Yours”) and an eyes-wide-open social outcast the next (“The Gypsy”). The outlier 1984’s “Our Story” ranks among the most depressing comedies ever made, but is noteworthy in that it earned Delon his only Cesar (France’s equivalent to the Oscar). In each of these performances, Delon brought something more than mannequin good looks to the part.

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Though he never demonstrated the control of his “instrument” embodied by the great American Method actors of the time (to the extent that his physical presence was often rather wooden), Delon projected a sadness behind those baby blues that could raise existential questions from even the shallowest exploitation premise. Take 1967 eye-roller “Diabolically Yours,” in which Delon plays a car crash survivor duped into believing he’s married to black-widow beauty Senta Berger. The film marks a clunky embarrassment for “Pepe le Moko” director Julien Duvivier (who, as irony would have it, suffered a fatal auto accident three months before its release) and features some of the most outrageous subliminal suggestion since “The Manchurian Candidate” (but whereas the gimmick works in that great pic, here we get Delon thrashing in bed as his tormentors needle him toward suicide).

The character’s fate may seem preordained, but there’s a certain mischief in his look that sells the pic’s sexy twist. In Jacques Deray’s “The Swimming Pool” (1969), Delon plays a character with genuine suicide issues and a body to die for. Lounging poolside with lover Romy Schneider, the failed novelist finds his reverie interrupted by rival Maurice Ronet (who played the Greenleaf to Delon’s Ripley in the equally steamy “Purple Noon”). Best Astrology Programs here. “Swimming Pool” is all subtext and sun-baked sexual ennui as the quartet, which include a nubile young Jane Birkin as Ronet’s barely legal daughter, engage in petty power games until one of the shallow hedonists inevitably ends up floating face-down in the pool.