Robert Redford, légende du cinéma américain, est mort (médias)
Robert Redford, an icon of American cinema for the past six decades, died Tuesday in Utah at the age of 89, according to the New York Times and other American media.
The actor starred in classics such as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), "The Sting" (1973) and "All the President's Men" (1976).
With his insolent beauty, he embodied a certain sunny side of America: environmentalist, committed, independent and prosperous.
His death was announced to the New York Times by agent Cindi Berger. He died in his sleep early Tuesday morning "in the mountains near Provo," she told the newspaper, without giving a specific cause of death.
A staunch Democrat, defender of Native American tribes and American landscapes, founder of the Sundance Film Festival, which has become the international benchmark for independent film, the cowboy with long golden locks has spent his whole life trying to carve out his own path, keeping his distance from Hollywood whenever he could.
The major studios offered him some 70 roles, most of them positive, committed characters ("Three Days of the Condor"), romantic ("The Great Gatsby") and always inspiring sympathy even when he played crooks as in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "The Sting" or his latest "The Old Man and the Gun" (2018).
He has notably appeared in seven Sydney Pollack films.
Although he received an Oscar in 2002 for his entire career, as an actor he has never been rewarded for a particular film, although several of his performances have been praised in emblematic films such as "Jeremiah Johnson" (Palme d'Or in 1972), "All the President's Men" (4 Oscars in 1977) and "Out of Africa" (7 Oscars in 1986), which established him as the archetype of the ideal lover.
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Je dis juste Rip !
Film qui m'a marqué : " Proposition indécente", Redford avec la magnifique actrice Demi Moore. A revoir à tous prix pour ceux qui ne l'ont pas vu.
Il a joué dans proposition indescente.
Un immense bonhomme...............: un certain cinéma américain, généreux, engagé et progressiste. Attaché au développement de la production indépendante, il avait créé l’Institut Sundance en 1981........... LE MONDE...Il aura représenté, à lui tout seul – à la fois comme comédien choisissant avec soin les personnages qu’il incarnait mais aussi comme réalisateur – un certain cinéma américain, généreux, engagé, progressiste, romantique, un cinéma questionnant parfois, toujours avec douceur, les fondements mêmes de son identité. Il était également attaché à le changer, à promouvoir les nouveaux talents, à la recherche peut-être d’une utopie, au cœur et à côté d’Hollywood. Loin de la masculinité rugueuse et de la mélancolie conservatrice d’un Clint Eastwood ou de l’exubérance hédoniste et psychédélique d’un Jack Nicholson, il y avait Robert Redford.
Alexander Pierce
Je soupçonne Dieu d être à l origine de sa mort
J'ai apprécié Spy Game
L'homme qui murmurait à l'oreille des chevaux
Un grand acteur.
RIP
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