There’s one major difference: Hallyday was dead and buried when the war was declared between his wife, Laeticia, and his children David and Laura. Although considerably weakened by a stroke in 2019, Alain Delon is still alive and kicking, and is a witness, distressed and powerless, to the fight between his three childre. Although the legendary actor of Luchino Visconti’s Rocco and His Brothers (1960) and The Leopard (1963) often retreats into silence, finds it difficult to express himself, can hardly hear and appears trapped in a body and brain that awaken only intermittently, his three children, Anthony, Anouchka and Alain-Fabien, agree on at least one point: Their father understands what’s going on around him.
