{"id":7220,"date":"2021-09-10T17:41:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/?p=7220"},"modified":"2021-09-10T17:41:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:41:41","slug":"jean-paul-belmondo-6-4-1933-to-6-9-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/jean-paul-belmondo-6-4-1933-to-6-9-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Paul-Belmondo (6.4.1933 to 6.9.2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Le Magnifique<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This week European cinema lost one of its greatest stars of the 20<sup>th<\/sup>century: Jean-Paul Belmondo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belmondo did it all: after a spell as an amateur boxer he trained as an actor and performed in theatre \u2013 a medium to which he returned briefly some 30 years into his film career. In 1959, Jean-Luc Godard cast him in a short film,&nbsp;<em>Charlotte et son Jules<\/em>, though the director himself dubbed the character\u2019s dialogue, as Belmondo was called up for national service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From then on he became indissolubly linked with the French New Wave. He made more films with Godard, notably&nbsp;<em>A Bout de Souffle<\/em> (1960), <em>Pierrot Le Fou<\/em> (1965) and&nbsp;<em>Une Femme est une Femme<\/em> (1961), as well as working with other New Wave directors: Claude Chabrol, Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut and Alain Resnais, usually in roles as a petty criminal or other lowlife character. He also worked with Jean-Pierre Melville, who rather improbably, but no less effectively, cast him as a priest in&nbsp;<em>Leon Morin, Pr\u00eatre<\/em> (1961). He acted for other notable directors of the period \u2013 Louis Malle, Vittorio De Sica, Rene Clement, amongst others \u2013&nbsp;and his co-stars included Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Jeanne Moreau and Lino Ventura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Altogether he made more than 70 films: in the later part of his career he concentrated on action and adventure films, many of which he also produced and in which he performed his own stunts.&nbsp;His final appearance on screen was in 2008 in the film&nbsp;<em>Un Homme at son Chien<\/em>, based on the 1952 Italian neo-realist film&nbsp;<em>Umberto D<\/em>, directed by Vittorio di Sica. Following this he retired completely because of&nbsp;failing health.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is said to have preferred making adventure films&nbsp;to the more &#8216;intellectual&#8217; films of Resnais, Godard and their ilk. Nevertheless, with his rumpled features, quizzical expression and enviably stylish way of wearing a trilby he will always be recognised as&nbsp;<em>the<\/em> face of French New Wave cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Truly, as President Macron said, <em>Le Magnifique<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Magnifique This week European cinema lost one of its greatest stars of the 20thcentury: Jean-Paul Belmondo. Belmondo did it all: after a spell as an amateur boxer he trained as an actor and performed in theatre \u2013 a medium to which he returned briefly some 30 years into his film career. In 1959, Jean-Luc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7226,"href":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions\/7226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}