Jean-Paul Belmondo, charismatic Gallic tough-guy actor and face of the French New Wave – obituary

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PARIS (Reuters) - France staged a grand farewell to Jean-Paul Belmondo on Thursday, saying the charismatic actor and New Wave legend who died on Monday aged 88 would live forever on film screens. Pallbearers carried Belmondo's coffin, covered in the French tricolour flag, into the courtyard of Les Invalides military museum in Paris, where Napoleon is buried, for an official tribute.

France’s cultural world and in living rooms, where families gathered around his films.Belmondo, whose crooked boxer’s nose and rakish grin made him one of the country’s most recognizable leading men, died at 88 earlier this week. No cause of death was given.Belmondo’s career spanned half a century, appearing in more than 80 films and working with a variety of major French directors.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIf Jean-Paul Belmondo had gotten his way, he would have been a stage actor. He applied to the Conservatoire de Paris three times before the illustrious drama school accepted him and spent the 1950s trying to launch a theater career.Lucky for world cinema, Belmondo had greater success on screen, thanks to his role in 1960’s “Breathless,” the movie that launched the French New Wave — and instantly rendered everything Hollywood had been doing old-fashioned.

Breathless, played a key part in developing French arthouse cinema.His death was confirmed today (September 6) by the office of Godest, while no cause of death was disclosed according to the Los Angeles Times.“All of France is sad, I am sad,” Godest said in a statement on BFMTV.“It was wonderful but also terrible because I saw in him the man, a friend that so many people wish they had had and at the same time there was a monster inside him, a terrible character,” he added.French president

Nouvelle Vague. In Breathless (1960), one of the most influential films of the last six decades, the 26-year-old Belmondo played Michel Poiccard, who steals a car in Marseille, kills the policeman who follows him and hides out in Paris with his American girlfriend (Jean Seberg).

lawyer confirmed the news to AFP. Belmondo – nicknamed Bébel by French audiences – became one of the country’s biggest box-office stars in the 60s and 70s, his battered-looking face a contrast to the chiselled features of his rival and sometime-collaborator Alain Delon.

the art houses led to criticism that he had wasted his undisputed talent – something he always denied.

Jean-Paul Belmondo, a legendary French actor who is known for his work in various genres of films, passed away in his Paris home at the age of 88 on Sept. 6, his lawyer, Michel Godest, confirmed to AFB News. “He had been very tired for some time. He died peacefully,” Godest told the outlet. No cause of death was given but the news hit hard for fans of the star, who appeared in more than 80 films throughout his successful career.

according to New York Times, though the cause was unreported.Like many of Hollywood’s leading men of the day, Belmondo embodied an unsentimental masculinity in his characters, such as the cavalier airman in “That Man from Rio” (“L’Homme de Rio”), who sets out to rescue his kidnapped fiancée — a role for which critics praised that Belmondo “outdid Douglas Fairbanks in agility, Harold Lloyd in cliffhanging, and James Bond in indestructibility.”Comparing the actor to James Dean, The Times’ critic

Jean-Paul Belmondo has sadly died at the age of 88.