Delon, France's greatest screen seducer, turns 80

As a slew of new French and Italian television documentaries puzzle over the enigmatic star, even Brigitte Bardot, one of Delon's oldest friends, has admitted she, too, has never quite solved the riddle. "You are that eagle with two heads, the ying and the yang, the best and the worst," the 1960s film icon wrote in a birthday note to Delon seen by AFP. Delon set the template for one of Hollywood's favourite tropes -- the mysterious, cerebral hitman -- with his staggering performance as the silent killer in Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samurai" (1967).

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