Belmondo

/ bɛlmɔ̃do, bɛlˈmɒndəʊ /

noun

1. Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pol). born 1933, French film actor

Example Sentences

The re-creation in “Nouvelle Vague” of one of the most famous scenes from “Breathless,” — Jean-Paul Belmondo and Seberg sharing a flirtatious stroll down the Champs-Élysées — required Deutch to exhaustively match the onscreen movements of Seberg as Patricia while also speaking as Seberg, since the film had its dialogue recorded later, essentially playing two characters at the same time.

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Recreating a famous moment — such as when Seberg runs her finger over her lips as Belmondo had done — was deeply meaningful to him: an invocation.

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The film’s bang-bang opening invites the adjective “breathless” and indeed “Classe” has an actual relationship to Jean-Luc Godard’s debut feature: Afraid to fetch Abel when he holes up in Nice, his old gang dispatches Eric Stark, a freelance criminal played by the “Breathless” lead Jean-Paul Belmondo.

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In September 2019, he attended the funeral of his friend and fellow star Jean-Paul Belmondo in Paris.

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The film version, co-written by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola and released in 1966, featured an enormous international cast, including Jean-Paul Belmondo, Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins and Gert Fröbe.

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