“Nil, your son sucks. “” With such a face, how do you expect him to do theater? This is roughly what many professors at the Conservatory were saying, where the one who was to become, with Alain Delon, the favorite actor of the French, experienced five years of humiliation in the 1950s. And to think that he triumphed on stage in Cyrano from Bergerac in 1990… A figure forever attached to the New Wave (At the end of breath and Pierrot le fou, by Jean-Luc Godard), comedies by Philippe de Broca (The magnificent), the crazy stunts at Claude Zidi (The animal), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933-2021) is here the subject of a biography ending in a fishtail where the author, cultural journalist at New Obs since 1999, relies largely on articles byParis Match. Despite everything, we take pleasure in this overview of 60 years of career, slowed down by a stroke in 2001, illustrated with numerous set photos where we reconnect with mythical actors of French cinema.
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