Faithfull is leaning over intimately as Delon murmurs to her, laughing, lit up in his presence, her body language entirely enfolded into his. Jagger can only look down uneasily at his cigarette.
Delon had a mesmerically demure, long-lashed, almost feline look that could indicate something mysterious, or wounded, or malign, and was very different from Hollywood beauty.
He had an unlocatable charisma to go with his beauty, the dangerous apparent passivity and stillness of a predator, which endeared him to French and Italian filmmakers.
Delon showed us the imprisoning effect of great beauty, a commonplace for female stars, reflecting the complexities of masculinity in film.
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