This evening TF1 Séries Films is broadcasting Borsalino, a film which brings together two sacred monsters of French cinema from the 1970s, Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo. The opportunity to offer you this quiz where you have to guess which of the two is present in these films!
Jacques Deray’s Borsalino was a real cinematographic event when it was released in 1970. Indeed, the filmmaker – who found Alain Delon there only a year after La Piscine – had succeeded with this film, the feat of associating him with the he other great star of French cinema at the time, Jean-Paul Belmondo. Which nevertheless triggered a small ego quarrel between the two legends.
And if it was the first time that the two actors found themselves side by side in the two main roles of a film, they had however already had the opportunity to share the poster four times before.
The very first time was in 1958 in Sois belle et tais-toi. Aged 23 and 25 respectively, it was for the two actors one of the very first appearances on the big screen in this film by Marc Allégret.
In the next one, in 1961, the two actors were separated, each in a different sketch of Famous Loves. We then found them five years later in one of the classics of French cinema with Paris is burning? by René Clément, then in Ho! by Robert Enrico in 1968.
Borsalino therefore marks the fifth meeting between the two stars, but not the last, since they will have the opportunity to meet again with a 1 in 2 chance in 1998, an action comedy by Patrice Leconte also starring Vanessa Paradis, then the aptly named Les acteurs by Bertrand Blier in 2000, and finally Les Cent et une nuit de Simon Cinéma by Agnès Varda.
Throughout their immense respective careers, the two actors have been able to give the answer to several generations of actors and actresses of prestige. And this is precisely the concept of this new quiz, since you will have to try to guess which of the two is present in these ten scenes facing these ten actors and actresses.