Jean-Paul Belmondo is dead to me (2024)

French actor who was adored in France and in the French-speaking world and a box-office attraction of the 70s.

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by Anonymousreply 189September 8, 2021 7:40 PM

He was coolness personified in À bout de souffle (1960)

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by Anonymousreply 1September 6, 2021 2:46 PM

I am going to be That Guy, I guess, and say that I was sure he was already dead. I thought he died when his youngest kid was 15 or so (he's apparently 21 now).

by Anonymousreply 2September 6, 2021 3:08 PM

I was so in love with him in high school (yes, I'm old). I still remember the scene where they roll the carriage into the lake.

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by Anonymousreply 3September 6, 2021 3:12 PM

Il avait un visage à grosse bite (BDF).

by Anonymousreply 4September 6, 2021 3:27 PM

He was sex on a stick, probably turned me gay at age 3.

by Anonymousreply 5September 6, 2021 3:29 PM

il avait un cul chaud mais il ne pouvait pas vivre éternellement

Quelle domage

by Anonymousreply 6September 6, 2021 3:37 PM

So hot in Breathless.

by Anonymousreply 7September 6, 2021 3:40 PM

Si jeune.

by Anonymousreply 8September 6, 2021 4:10 PM

Je t’aime R8

by Anonymousreply 9September 6, 2021 4:18 PM

He had a hot arse but he couldn’t live forever.

A few months ago I stored a photo of him from the 1970s where his hard nipples are on display. Got a few wanks out of that photo. Maybe will have one tonight in his honour.

by Anonymousreply 10September 6, 2021 4:40 PM

Those unfiltered Gauloises will do that to ya.

by Anonymousreply 11September 6, 2021 4:44 PM

So young!

by Anonymousreply 12September 6, 2021 4:58 PM

butterface

by Anonymousreply 13September 6, 2021 5:00 PM

He was one of the first stars to show his bare ass in full shot (Claude Chabrol's A DOUBLE TOUR, 1959). And it was magnificently rock hard.

by Anonymousreply 14September 6, 2021 5:08 PM

Rumor had it, he was an incredible lover. Don't know if that implied big dick or not. He was fucking Farah Fawcett at some point.

by Anonymousreply 15September 6, 2021 5:09 PM

I’d love to have been double teamed by Belmondo and Manuel Ferreira.

by Anonymousreply 16September 6, 2021 5:13 PM

I have seen a lot of people refer to him as "ugly-hot" or even outright "ugly," which I find surprising. I guess some people didn't care for the nose? I don't know. I think he was a gorgeous man—maybe even sexier than Brando. He was a great actor, too. He gets all the accolades for "Breathless", but I think his greatest performance was in "Leon Morin, Priest". That film is a masterpiece and doesn't get enough credit.

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by Anonymousreply 17September 6, 2021 5:14 PM

TCM recently aired an interview he gave at one of their film festivals. A lot of French stars, when they get old, become very nasty pieces of work (ie, Jean-Pierre Leaud and BB), but Belmondo was very sweet, funny, humble, and didn't take himself too seriously. RIP. When asked why he didn't make many American films, he said he had several offers (mostly Mafia roles), and Sam Spiegel offered him a contract. But he just loved France and didn't want to leave. But he stressed that he "loved American films", just didn't want to make any.

by Anonymousreply 18September 6, 2021 5:30 PM

Loved his beautiful, lean, tanned body in "Breathless".

by Anonymousreply 19September 6, 2021 5:34 PM

One of my idols. R.I.P. Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was an amazing actor who worked with so many top directors. And not a right-wing douche like Alain Delon.

by Anonymousreply 20September 6, 2021 5:39 PM

[quote]Il avait un visage à grosse bite (BDF).

Wee-wee, gurl!

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by Anonymousreply 21September 6, 2021 5:39 PM

God bless my college intro to film class for introducing me to Jean-Paul way back when. Hot, hot, hot. Amazing actor and will be missed dearly.

by Anonymousreply 22September 6, 2021 5:46 PM

R18 The difference with the American stars who are real piece of shit from beginning to end I guess. France will do without the value judgments of an America that has no lesson to give to anyone!

by Anonymousreply 23September 6, 2021 5:52 PM

He had a nice ass.

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by Anonymousreply 24September 6, 2021 5:54 PM

And a nice physique.

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by Anonymousreply 25September 6, 2021 5:55 PM

R20 Americans practice vulgarity without equal in the world. Even in death you are unable to be respectful, dignified and humble. You absolutely must bring politics into this. If you knew that in France, the Democrat party would be on the right-wing, you would shut your big anus mouth, you, police of the world!

by Anonymousreply 26September 6, 2021 5:57 PM

[quote] Rumor had it, he was an incredible lover.

The French are a seductive and sensual race.

by Anonymousreply 27September 6, 2021 6:03 PM

R20 For your information Delon and Belmondo were very close in real life. They respected each other a lot, because in France, people don't spend their lives judging others according to their political views. Three hours ago, Alain Delon was in tears while talking about Belmondo which is very rare coming from him. His pain could be heard very clearly. These big stars are from another generation. The one who knew the Nazi occupier on their soil. To judge others with your American look on the world as if you were exempt of faults is worthy of the biggest intellectual mediocrity but the world knows it can count on you all on this. The French never judge your Hollywood actors who vote for Republican, like Clint Eastwood for example. They are above that. What matters to them is what they have given to the cinema. and Delon gave a lot. More than some of your so-called "talented" democrat actors.

by Anonymousreply 28September 6, 2021 6:21 PM

Merci, Marine Le Pen

by Anonymousreply 29September 6, 2021 6:31 PM

R29 Lol Unlike your orange buffoon Marine Le Pen was never elected, you angel of humanity, as everyone knows...

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by Anonymousreply 30September 6, 2021 6:33 PM

He has/had weird, rubbery lips!

by Anonymousreply 31September 6, 2021 6:36 PM

R29 Funny to think that this comes from a people who spent 30 years bombing Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria... And they dare to call the others Marine Le Pen.

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by Anonymousreply 32September 6, 2021 6:37 PM

Girls, girls, pleeeease refocus the discussion on JPs beautiful ass!

by Anonymousreply 33September 6, 2021 6:40 PM

Yes, that was a national nightmare, R30. A friend of mine moved from California to Caen to escape. I nearly joined her. And why do you find it necessary to make this a political thread, R32? Many Americans detest these actions taken by their government and protested them, myself included.

Anyway, back on topic--Belmondo and Delon were probably the two sexiest men ever to grace the screen. It's too bad that the film they did together, Borsalino, was schlock.

by Anonymousreply 34September 6, 2021 6:42 PM

Jeez, he had MONKEY LIPS!!!!

by Anonymousreply 35September 6, 2021 6:42 PM

R3, we’re you watching the late late movie on a Boston tv channel?

I never saw the ending, my parents came home and yelled at me for still being up. Finally saw the whole movie about ten years ago and it was…not good. But I still love Belmondo. Had that poster, you know the one, hanging up in my bedroom.

by Anonymousreply 36September 6, 2021 6:44 PM

R34 Excuse me? It's these assholes Americans who take the liberty of judging French actors and we shouldn't say anything ??? I just want to remind them that you all are the last ones in the world to judge others. Especially when it comes to racism. If you attack I answer! Simple.

by Anonymousreply 37September 6, 2021 6:46 PM

Loved him and Anna Karina in “Pierrot le fou” and their song

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by Anonymousreply 38September 6, 2021 6:51 PM

R37, et al: psshh -- whatever, Polanski-harborer!

by Anonymousreply 39September 6, 2021 6:52 PM

R39 Say what?

by Anonymousreply 40September 6, 2021 6:53 PM

Leon Morin Priest is when I fell in love with him.

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by Anonymousreply 41September 6, 2021 6:55 PM

[quote] Loved him and Anna Karina

She met such a tragic end!

by Anonymousreply 42September 6, 2021 6:55 PM

You heard me, r40. Either hand him over or stfu with the "France is superior to everyone!" attitude.

by Anonymousreply 43September 6, 2021 6:58 PM

He made so many great films and it seems to be the end of an era as those stars die out. My favourite is “Mississippi mermaid” with Catherine deneuve, later remade as “original sun” with banderas and jolie. I prefer “mermaid” filmed on the beautiful island of reunion

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by Anonymousreply 44September 6, 2021 6:59 PM

Belmondo is the object of Charles Vanel's "dirty old man" lust in Jean-Pierre Melville's fake "American Road Movie" L'AINE DES FERCHAUX (63). (also known as MAGNET OF DOOM). JPB plays the old man's bodyguard and "secretary" and they go down to the swamps of Louisiana on a road trip that defies belief.

by Anonymousreply 45September 6, 2021 7:00 PM

R43 France is indeed superior, in that French would never allow such behavior when one of your icons dies. Never. No, I don't hear you well

by Anonymousreply 46September 6, 2021 7:00 PM

"Leon Morin" was the original "Hot Priest."

by Anonymousreply 47September 6, 2021 7:00 PM

R45 will check that out

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by Anonymousreply 48September 6, 2021 7:01 PM

I understand why you're offended, R37, but not all of us lump people together by their country of origin. C'est l'hôpital qui se moque de la charité.

My favorite Belmondos:

Breathless

That Man from Rio

Leon Morin

Pierrot le Fou

Mississippi Mermaid

by Anonymousreply 49September 6, 2021 7:04 PM

R27, people are “sensuous,” not “sensual.”

by Anonymousreply 50September 6, 2021 7:04 PM

R42 Anna Karina and Marie laforêt, former co-stars, died more or less the same age just a month apart from one another, I always thought that was a strange coincidence.

by Anonymousreply 51September 6, 2021 7:08 PM

R49 Really? To have the nerve to criticize Delon on Belmondo's thread on the day of his death, when they were friends, what is that ??? It is well said above that "unlike Brigitte Bardot and Alain Delon" Belmondo was really a nice person. Who do you think you are ? You never stop judging the whole world when you can't afford it and you never have any decency or respect. So you have the right to smear others and in exchange they should just shut the fuck up? In what world does that exist? If you are able to find the equivalent of your unacceptable behavior throughout the world in France, I am all ears.

by Anonymousreply 52September 6, 2021 7:09 PM

And I LOVED his lips.

by Anonymousreply 53September 6, 2021 7:11 PM

It’s a crime Criterion Collection has released Mississippi Mermaid yet.

Léon Morin, Priest is fantastic. Another great Melville he starred in was Le Doulos.

Breathless, A Woman is a Woman- knockout films.

The man was and IS a legend.

by Anonymousreply 54September 6, 2021 7:12 PM

That nose!

by Anonymousreply 55September 6, 2021 7:13 PM

R52, I am not the one who made the comment about Delon or Bardot. Nor am I here to defend America's political actions. Quite the opposite. I am only averse to judging all people within a country based on the actions of some of its inhabitants.

Thank you for the recommendations, R45 and R54.

by Anonymousreply 56September 6, 2021 7:22 PM

R56 Okay, I get that, then tell it to R18 and R20, not me. They are the ones looking for troubles here with that total lack of respect behavior.

by Anonymousreply 57September 6, 2021 7:25 PM

Adieu, mon cher. Je suis desolee.

by Anonymousreply 58September 6, 2021 7:27 PM

T his from his attorney who announced his death. Oh, dear.

[Quote]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," Godest added.

by Anonymousreply 59September 6, 2021 7:30 PM

Much of the french new wave has ages rather well in comparison to the American films of the 50s and 60s. The icons too still look rather current with their often replicated styles.

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by Anonymousreply 60September 6, 2021 7:33 PM

He was the lead in Breathless

and now IS breathless

by Anonymousreply 61September 6, 2021 7:34 PM

He dated Ursula Andress for years.

by Anonymousreply 62September 6, 2021 7:34 PM

Here they are

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by Anonymousreply 63September 6, 2021 7:36 PM

Any reports of the homosex?

by Anonymousreply 64September 6, 2021 7:40 PM

Belmondo's films available to stream:

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by Anonymousreply 65September 6, 2021 7:41 PM

[quote][R56] Okay, I get that, then tell it to [R18] and [R20], not me. They are the ones looking for troubles here with that total lack of respect behavior.

Actually, I wasn't "looking for" anything except to pay tribute to a great French star whose work I enjoyed. But instead of focusing on that, you've chosen to latch on to my throw-away comment about two other French stars and shake it like an angry, relentless little terrier.

But hey, continue to "do you", as we say.

by Anonymousreply 66September 6, 2021 8:03 PM

Degolas!

by Anonymousreply 67September 6, 2021 8:10 PM

An icon of France before it became overrun with Muslims.

by Anonymousreply 68September 6, 2021 8:11 PM

R54 Mississippi Mernaid was released several years ago by Twilight Time.

by Anonymousreply 69September 6, 2021 8:11 PM

Oh, drear. I meant MERMAID***

by Anonymousreply 70September 6, 2021 8:12 PM

R66 See? you are not able to respect others. Know that what you said, Belmondo would have hated it. When someone dies you have the decency not to write things like, "booo hooo Belmondo was a decent and nice person, not like that person". Your lack of education is obvious. You need to have answers to your despicable attitude that thinks it is above others when it only brings hatred and resentment. The French don't behave like that with your stars when they just die even if they are pure assholes. That's what I'm talking about here. The worst thing is that you didn't even know that Belmondo and Delon were real friends for more than 50 years. You don't even bother to wait for him to be buried to pour out your ideology and what you pretentiously think is a view of purity. The French don't like your thought police because you generally do the exact opposite of what you advocate. Next time you'll shut your big inquisitive mouth.

by Anonymousreply 71September 6, 2021 8:14 PM

Give it a rest. The French cinema world gossips brutally about each other.

by Anonymousreply 72September 6, 2021 8:17 PM

R72 No comparison with Hollyweird. The French film world respects the dead. The French in general respect the dead.

by Anonymousreply 73September 6, 2021 8:18 PM

I agree. So don't die and back out of the room at dinner parties.

by Anonymousreply 74September 6, 2021 8:21 PM

^^ STRIKE

So until you die be sure to back out of the room at dinner parties.

by Anonymousreply 75September 6, 2021 8:29 PM

Even in the Marais, the gay district of Paris, Belmondo's posters can be seen in cafés and private clubs.

by Anonymousreply 76September 6, 2021 8:29 PM

...while Aline plays in the background.

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by Anonymousreply 77September 6, 2021 8:34 PM

And for the information of the inquisitors Delon has never been homophobic. His best friend Jean Claude Brialy, a Gay French actor, testified that Delon protected several gay actors during his career. And I add that for a so-called racist he had a passionate affair with a black woman. That gorgeous woman dumped him for Jacques Brel. Delon admired Brel and felt humiliated. Her name was Maddly. You can see her in the movie La Piscine with Delon and Romy Shneider. It was Delon who imposed Maddly in this movie.

by Anonymousreply 78September 6, 2021 8:38 PM

Over-rated. RIP, anyway.

by Anonymousreply 79September 6, 2021 8:38 PM

^Romy schneider

by Anonymousreply 80September 6, 2021 8:39 PM

[quote] Belmondo is the object of Charles Vanel's "dirty old man" lust in Jean-Pierre Melville's fake "American Road Movie" L'AINE DES FERCHAUX (63). (also known as MAGNET OF DOOM). JPB plays the old man's bodyguard and "secretary" and they go down to the swamps of Louisiana on a road trip that defies belief.

R45, I watched that film a few weeks ago on The Criterion Channel for the first time and really enjoyed it. I remember Jonathan Rosenbaum often talked about how Melville's films had this latent homoeroticism, and I never picked that up until I watched Magnet of Doom. With Jean-Pierre Melville, there's always a deeper subtext beneath his films' gangster and noir conventions.

by Anonymousreply 81September 6, 2021 8:44 PM

That casse-pieds Romy Schneider!

by Anonymousreply 82September 6, 2021 8:44 PM

Another of my favorite films with Belmondo is Les Tricheurs. Very casual about homosexuality among the late 50s existentialists.

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by Anonymousreply 83September 6, 2021 8:49 PM

R82 Yeah... but for her defense, Romy Schneider hated herself because her mother had been a close friend of Hitler. She was haunted by this. All her life. She destroyed herself because her mother had taken her to the Eagle's Nest when she was still a baby.

by Anonymousreply 84September 6, 2021 8:49 PM

R84 I think her destruction had more to do with the gruesome death of her young son. Is the hitler connection true or simply gossip?

by Anonymousreply 85September 6, 2021 8:51 PM

R83 oh another handsome favourite jacques charrier.

by Anonymousreply 86September 6, 2021 8:52 PM

R85 The connection with Hitler is unfortunately not a rumor. There are pictures of her mother with Hitler at the eagle's nest. Before the death of her son David, she already hated herself when she knew about her mother. Delon could not bring her back to life and get her out of her guilt.

by Anonymousreply 87September 6, 2021 8:53 PM

Romy S was also a pill head and boozer. Depression

by Anonymousreply 88September 6, 2021 8:54 PM

In his youth, he was a true beauty, and had the best cocksucking lips I've ever seen. Unfortunately, he aged poorly—way too much sun and way too much smoking. His face looked waxen and orange in his later years.

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by Anonymousreply 89September 6, 2021 8:56 PM

Here's Magda Schneider (Romy's mom) with Hitler

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by Anonymousreply 91September 6, 2021 9:01 PM

Belmondo was the French Humphrey Bogart. Not traditionally handsome, but sexy and he had an interesting face Saw him in Breathless(Godard) and Mississippi Mermaid(Truffaut) both interesting films. He was a genuine icon.

by Anonymousreply 92September 6, 2021 9:06 PM

I am heartsick. Belmondo was a fantasy slap bank figure of mine for many years!

by Anonymousreply 93September 6, 2021 9:08 PM

R91 fascinating

by Anonymousreply 94September 6, 2021 9:09 PM

I never got Belmondo's appeal myself. I was turned off with the cigarette hanging out of his mouth in many of his films. It must a cool French thing that I don't get. I prefer Alain Delon. Anyway, Jean-Paul was one of kind and may he rest in peace.

Fun fact: Belmondo's son once dated Princess Stephanie of Monaco.

by Anonymousreply 95September 6, 2021 9:09 PM

R95 Delon's son Anthony also dated Stephanie of Monaco

by Anonymousreply 96September 6, 2021 9:12 PM

R94 Her mom is in the Sissi movies as...her mom. But Romy didn't know yet about her mother connexion to hitler at the time, she was still a teenager.

by Anonymousreply 97September 6, 2021 9:15 PM

If Schneider had depression for many years no wonder why her son's brutal death put her over the edge. Delon has admitted to the occasional homosexual encounter. But France is still because of its ingrained Catholicism a homophobic country.

I haven't been to Paris in many years. But people here make it sound like an Arab city at this point.

by Anonymousreply 98September 6, 2021 9:21 PM

Thanks r91. I'll look forward to the German doc mentioned.

Everybody in Europe was deeply affected by WWII in different profound ways. This was her fate. Frankly I found RS tiresome

by Anonymousreply 99September 6, 2021 9:22 PM

You can say whatever you want but Romy Schneider was one of the most brilliant actress of her times. She had a style of acting never seen before. About the suppposed homophobia of the french, you have to know that the Gays lived better in France than in America. Oscar Wilde found refuge in France when he was imprisoned for homosexuality in England. Only fundamentalist Catholics were against homosexual marriage. As far as I know, it is exactly the same everywhere in the world. Marlon Brando lived for years with a French actor in Paris openly, and nobody took offense.

by Anonymousreply 100September 6, 2021 9:29 PM

Threads like this are why I still come to DL.

by Anonymousreply 101September 6, 2021 9:31 PM

R99 What reinforced Romy's trauma was that paparazzi took pictures of her dead son impaled on the gate. This finished her off. Delon stayed with her throughout the nightmare even though they had not been together for years. She will remain the only love of his life in Delon's own words

by Anonymousreply 102September 6, 2021 9:44 PM

As a European I have to say we are homophobic nearly throughout. You may not go to jail and you may marry in most Euro countries, but there is still trolling and discrimination against gays. I would say the Netherlands and Spain are best for gays.

Alberto Sordi was gay. Deeply closeted living with his sister. I hope he got enough dick in his life.

Raffaella Carra was so blatantly gay. Deeply closeted. Hope she got hers.

France and Italy are still very homophobic IMO

But the USA outside of a few major cities is homophobic as well.

by Anonymousreply 103September 6, 2021 9:54 PM

Romy Schneider's son also dated Stephanie of Monaco.

by Anonymousreply 104September 6, 2021 9:54 PM

I can't believe the DM put Michael K. Williams as their headline and just have a small blurb halfway down the page for Belmondo.

by Anonymousreply 105September 6, 2021 9:55 PM

R104 you're a real piece of shit

by Anonymousreply 106September 6, 2021 9:56 PM

R103 Yeah sure... So obvious troll

by Anonymousreply 107September 6, 2021 9:57 PM

R103 When was the last time you set foot on French soil? Just out of curiosity. I would say NEVER. As I would say that you're NOT a European.

by Anonymousreply 108September 6, 2021 9:59 PM

What joy he gave. Delon as well. BB. fabulous in the day, who was more gorgeous?? And now an animal advocate. Some people have such small lives...all about the politics. Get out a bit more. Make some new friends. Learn something new.Find some way to grow inside.

by Anonymousreply 109September 6, 2021 10:01 PM

I am a Spaniard, Sir. The husbear is Swiss. What do you want to know?

by Anonymousreply 110September 6, 2021 10:01 PM

Liza Minelli's son also dated Stephanie of Monaco.

by Anonymousreply 111September 6, 2021 10:04 PM

You have said everything I needed to know: Your country is better than others. Except that the news says otherwise.

by Anonymousreply 112September 6, 2021 10:06 PM

JP had a busted face from his pre cinema boxingb days. The nose could have been fixed easily It didn't age well

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by Anonymousreply 113September 6, 2021 10:14 PM

French actors do not like the Hollywood way of using plastic surgery. For them, a face should be as expressive as possible, with its flaws. They rarely do their teeth and noses. They don't care. And when you look carefully European actors in general don't use botox or plastic surgery as much as Hollywood actors do.

by Anonymousreply 114September 6, 2021 10:19 PM

R113 / R114 I think the "busted" nose looks fine. That tends to look hot on most men, and gives them a rugged look. Nothing about his face warranted plastic surgery. He was very handsome. He did age badly though from baking in the sun too much, plus the cigarettes. When you look at photos of him in the later portion of his life, his skin looks absolutely wrecked. I tend to think the disregard for that though could be cultural as well(?) Belmondo strikes me as a bon vivant who thought very little about how his skin was going to age.

by Anonymousreply 115September 6, 2021 10:26 PM

R115 Totally agree with you. His nose added more charisma and charm in my gay book

by Anonymousreply 116September 6, 2021 10:31 PM

Standing ovation at the Cesars 2017.

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by Anonymousreply 117September 6, 2021 10:37 PM

Clooney was there??? R117

by Anonymousreply 118September 6, 2021 10:41 PM

Jean Marais' son, Serge, dated Stéphanie of Monaco.

by Anonymousreply 119September 6, 2021 11:11 PM

Jean Marais had a son?!!!

by Anonymousreply 120September 6, 2021 11:14 PM

R114 Sure there are French actors who have had terrible plastic surgery. Emmanuelle Beart comes to mind.

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by Anonymousreply 122September 6, 2021 11:18 PM

Jean Paul Belmondo is the incarnation of the golden age of French cinema with the new wave. I loved that movie with Catherine Deneuve. He was so beautiful and classy in it.

I see that there are a lot of ignorant people in this thread, as usual, who have the need to troll or bring their politics into topics that have nothing to do with Belmondo. In every DL thread now we can't talk of anything without being held hostage by these obsessed partisanne morons. As if they were even better. Sorry but History says they weren't.

This is the stupid, uneducated, ungrateful world we live in nowaday. Belmondo has war medals unlike some people here who think they are so much better than others. Delon also served in Indochina. He grew up without his parents and in an unbearable hatred, of course he could not be like the others. But since you alll are so much better, look at the way your Democrat President left Afghanistan without warning his allies and shut your shitty mouths. Fed up of the bullshiters who are ruining this website days after days. Fed up!

by Anonymousreply 123September 6, 2021 11:28 PM

When I was in Paris years ago there were posters up for a play Belmondo was going to be in shortly after I left. I was very sad about that.

by Anonymousreply 124September 6, 2021 11:32 PM

You tasteless bitches saying he should have fixed his nose should be SHOT, his nose was a huge part of his attractiveness

by Anonymousreply 125September 7, 2021 12:34 AM

Bravo R 123!! So sick of every damn thing on here has to be politically correct according to a certain point of view. If you don't agree..name calling Childish petulant idiots. Really takes the heart & interest out of things. All politics all the time..Boring..Get a life & then live it.

by Anonymousreply 126September 7, 2021 1:02 AM

He and Delon were so handsome and beautifully costumed in Borsolino 1970. EYE CANDY!!

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by Anonymousreply 127September 7, 2021 1:03 AM

1970 - Borsalino / full film / eng subtitles

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by Anonymousreply 128September 7, 2021 1:12 AM

"The Lovemakers" (1961) Jean Paul Belmondo & Claudia Cardinale / full film / eng subtitles

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by Anonymousreply 129September 7, 2021 1:15 AM

I love the way this thread became about Romy Schneider, one of my favorites. Tragic eyes. She's lucky her mother didn't do a Magda Goebbels and kill herself and her child. I think Romy was a fragile person for many reasons, probably a mix of nature/nurture. I always liked to see her in films.

by Anonymousreply 130September 7, 2021 1:23 AM

JPB was no Vittorio Gassman. THAT'S a beautiful guy.

by Anonymousreply 131September 7, 2021 1:24 AM

Gassman was a fully formed man. Belmondo was a sexy pipsqueak.

by Anonymousreply 132September 7, 2021 1:27 AM

R130 You would be extremely fragile if your mother had been friend with Hitler and they had dinners together and according to Romy, even slept together. And as if that wasn't enough, your son dies before he's even a teenager and the picture of his bloody body ends up in the tabloid pages. I feel like I'm in another dimension when I read such cold heart insensitive and inhuman people like you on this site. DL must be what hell looks like.

by Anonymousreply 133September 7, 2021 1:55 AM

Looking at this pics and gifs all I can think is, holy hell, he must have reeked of stale cigarettes. Very different times.

by Anonymousreply 134September 7, 2021 1:56 AM

[Quote]You would be extremely fragile if your mother had been friend with Hitler Not necesarily. Far worse was experienced by most Europeans during the war.

by Anonymousreply 135September 7, 2021 2:00 AM

R135 Yeah because of course most European mothers were friends with Hitler and even slept with him. Seriously, go read historical books you moron ignorant. Jesus.

by Anonymousreply 136September 7, 2021 2:05 AM

Wow…

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by Anonymousreply 137September 7, 2021 2:10 AM

^^ idiot. Seeing family members cut dow, blown to bits, hauled off to camps trumps sleeping with Shitstain

by Anonymousreply 138September 7, 2021 2:12 AM

I never would have guessed that a thread about Jean-Paul Belmondo would lead to absolute hysteria from some DLers.

by Anonymousreply 139September 7, 2021 2:15 AM

R138 Go see a psychiatrist. People like you with no emotions become psychopaths. Romy has also seen bodies dismembered, blown to bits. Those who have been in camps and survived are the strongest people of the last century, but to compare their pain to Romy's is profoundly immature. Go get treatment. Also in America you didn't see any of this, you asshole

by Anonymousreply 140September 7, 2021 2:16 AM

He was so fucking hot. And a great actor with great comic chops too. Never saw him in person though. I saw Delon in Geneva several times. He aged badly like many pretty men do. Belmondo the original joli laid aged beautifully.

by Anonymousreply 141September 7, 2021 2:17 AM

Love the nose and lips. And everything else.

RIP

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by Anonymousreply 142September 7, 2021 2:19 AM

Blocking this psycho R135, enough.

by Anonymousreply 143September 7, 2021 2:20 AM

He was 1 in a million. How wonderful he still exists on film. May need to get a few more of the films mentioned here to add to my collection.

by Anonymousreply 144September 7, 2021 2:28 AM

Has anyone mentioned "Classe Tous Risques?" He was really great in that and crime films. Whoever said he was the French Bogart was right on the money.

by Anonymousreply 145September 7, 2021 2:36 AM

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by Anonymousreply 146September 7, 2021 2:50 AM

Watched That Man From Rio (1964) tonight, a very broad adventure comedy that prefigures the Indiana Jones series. Belmondo does a lot of crazy stunts and fascinating to Brasilia under construction.

by Anonymousreply 147September 7, 2021 3:51 AM

I love "That Man from Rio". Nine years later Belmondo and the same director (Philippe de Broca) made "Le Magnifique", which was also called "The Man from Acapulco". Belmondo has a dual role and is pretty funny, but it's not nearly as good as "Rio".

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by Anonymousreply 148September 7, 2021 4:02 AM

JPB had wonderful lips. That was a mouth to kiss for hours.

by Anonymousreply 149September 7, 2021 5:02 AM

R133 and whoever liked that stupid comment: learn to read.

by Anonymousreply 150September 7, 2021 5:22 AM

I appreciate the film recommendations/links. I've realized I haven't seen enough of his movies.

In terms of looks, I much prefer Jean-Paul Belmondo's rough, masculine look to Alain Delon's refined prettiness. (And I agree with the Frenchman's offense at putting politics into this; applying political polarization to all aspects of life is not helpful.)

by Anonymousreply 151September 7, 2021 5:38 AM

My hero is dead tonight. I'm feeling blue.

by Anonymousreply 152September 7, 2021 5:45 AM

With Sophia Loren in "Two Women", for which she won the Oscar. Belmondo was dubbed in Italian, but it's still an excellent performance.

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by Anonymousreply 153September 7, 2021 5:56 AM

He played the bad boy roles well...RIP.

by Anonymousreply 154September 7, 2021 6:15 AM

He looked like he had a belle grosse bite

by Anonymousreply 155September 7, 2021 10:32 AM

Did he have “an” OnlyFans?

by Anonymousreply 156September 7, 2021 11:43 AM

[quote]French actor who was adored in France and in the French-speaking world and a box-office attraction of the 70s.

Belmondo lived in France, however, he wasn't French. He was born in Algiers to Italian parents.

by Anonymousreply 157September 7, 2021 1:27 PM

Don’t understand all the fuss. Not a looker.

by Anonymousreply 158September 7, 2021 1:49 PM

[quote]Don’t understand all the fuss. Not a looker.

Good acting has little to do with performer's looks. Character actors and actresses will always have work. These average looking performers will be working long after the 'pretty' boys and girls, the so-called 'movie stars', looks have long faded.

Very few super attractive performers have long term careers, especially as few of these 'hot' performers aren't very good performers. I can count the performers who are extremely talented, and also very attractive, on one hand.

How old are you, 16?

by Anonymousreply 159September 7, 2021 1:53 PM

From the WaPo obit:

Jean Paul Belmondo in an interview:

Allergic to pretense, he reveled in mocking the banalities of celebrity interviews. “What do you think of when you kiss a girl?” he was once asked by a reporter. “The gas bill,” he said.

I wish he’d said Alain Delon.

by Anonymousreply 160September 7, 2021 1:53 PM

No, r157, Belmondo was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. It was his father who was born in Algeria to Italian parents.

by Anonymousreply 161September 7, 2021 1:53 PM

R159 Look has everything to do with stardom. Don’t kid yourself.

by Anonymousreply 162September 7, 2021 1:58 PM

He was a looker. But many many people have no eye for such things. Mostly those provincial types living under rocks who run in horror at anyone who doesn't look like a bland local fella.

by Anonymousreply 163September 7, 2021 2:02 PM

He’s certainly no Alain Delon

by Anonymousreply 164September 7, 2021 2:05 PM

On American college campuses he was the Troy Donahue alternative. You had to live through a double feature in the 1950s to understand.

by Anonymousreply 165September 7, 2021 2:18 PM

[quote]No, [R157], Belmondo was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. It was his father who was born in Algeria to Italian parents.

I got the info where he was born wrong, sue me. Belmondo was NOT of French descent, that was my point. His parents were Italian. Belmondo was French by birth, not due to the original nationality of his parents. Same with model 'Jizzelle' Bunchen, she's Brazilian by birth, but she's actually of German descent.

I'm American by birth, but my parents are Italian, French, Scottish, English and North African, those nationalities are my true background. What does 'American' mean anyway? The entire country is a mix of many nationalities.

From the NY Time obit: "Jean-Paul Belmondo was born on April 9, 1933, in the middle-class Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. His family moved to the city’s Left Bank when he was a boy, and he grew up in the neighborhoods around Montparnasse and Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

His father, Paul Belmondo, who was born in Algiers to a family of Italian origin, was a highly regarded sculptor. He later told interviewers that his son had been a tempestuous boy who had gotten into frequent scraps and did poorly in school."

by Anonymousreply 166September 7, 2021 2:33 PM

His mother was French: Sarah Rainaud-Richard, born in Paris.

by Anonymousreply 167September 7, 2021 2:42 PM

Jesus H. Christ her name is Gisele. GISELE: She is BRAZILIAN. By your retarded theories, the only BRAZILIAN model must be a Yamamoto from the Amazon Rain Forest!!!! Do fuck off.

by Anonymousreply 168September 7, 2021 2:47 PM

[quote] belle grosse bite

What is that?

by Anonymousreply 169September 7, 2021 2:54 PM

Wow again…

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by Anonymousreply 170September 7, 2021 2:57 PM

Wow xxxx infinity…

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by Anonymousreply 171September 7, 2021 3:02 PM

R157 Arabs really are so dumb! Belmondo was born in Paris, from Frenc-Italian parents you idiot

by Anonymousreply 172September 7, 2021 3:19 PM

R166 In France, the culture is fortunately not the same as in USA. When you are born in France you are French. You don't call someone like Belmondo an Italian-French. Never. The French constitution is not American. France does not recognize any community. Also, you should have mentioned that his father was born in Algeria when it was still a French colony. He was neither Arab nor Berber but Italian. FYI Belmondo considered himself French. Not italian.

by Anonymousreply 173September 7, 2021 3:29 PM

He had abs before they were cool. I could watch his bathtub scene in Pierrot Le For for hours.

by Anonymousreply 174September 7, 2021 3:35 PM

Belmondo's father was a well-known sculptor, his mother a painter. He was born in Neuillly-sur-Seine which is the richest suburb of Paris. He played working-class heroes but he was from the artistic haute bourgeoisie.

by Anonymousreply 175September 7, 2021 4:04 PM

[quote]Jesus H. Christ her name is Gisele. GISELE: She is BRAZILIAN. By your retarded theories, the only BRAZILIAN model must be a Yamamoto from the Amazon Rain Forest!!!! Do fuck off.

No, YOU need to fuck off, you bloody moron.

Supermodel Giselle Bunchen, of course I knew her real name, the name JIZZELLE is a DL joke, you dolt. If you are too dense to comprehend that…well..you shouldn’t be posting here.

Anyway 'Jizzy' is of GERMAN descent. FACT. she's Brazilian born of German descent.

"Born in Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, South Region, Brazil, Bündchen is a sixth-generation German Brazilian, born to Vânia (née Nonnenmacher), a bank clerk pensioner, and Valdir Bündchen, a sociologist and writer.

Her grandfather, Walter Bündchen, once served as mayor of Horizontina. She grew up with five sisters, Raquel, Graziela, Gabriela, Rafaela and her fraternal twin, Patrícia. The family was Roman Catholic. Although her parents speak German and Bündchen learned German in school, she no longer speaks the language. Bündchen speaks Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish and French.”

Nonnenmacher, you cannot get more GERMAN than that name! Bunchen, another GERMAN name! Jeez, get with the program.

Do you realize a lot of Germans fled to Brazil during World War II? Lots of Nazis ended up in Brazil and in other South American countries.

Do your fucking research before you come to DL and end up sounding like a bloody imbecile.

by Anonymousreply 176September 7, 2021 4:27 PM

R102 Delon was bi-. He got caught up in the Pompidou scandal of the rent boys of Bois de Boulogne. He was supposedly dating Mireille Darc for years and she was a not particularly closeted lesbian.

Delon's politics were extreme right-wing which alienated most of the Paris crowd.

by Anonymousreply 177September 7, 2021 4:39 PM

Alain Delon treated the actress/singer Nico like shit.

IIRC, he refused to acknowledge their son. Nico wasn't exactly the world's greatest mother. The son was brought up by Delon's mother.

by Anonymousreply 178September 7, 2021 5:26 PM

Delon married first a woman who looked just like him, a sort of journalist who tried to become an actress as Nathalie Delon. Their kid Anthony is odd-looking though. Like too much of a good thing.

by Anonymousreply 179September 7, 2021 7:35 PM

R117 Delon wasn't and is still not from extreme right-wing. Americans really don't know anything about the French politic universe. Do you know how Jean Marie Le Pen came to the spotlight?

In the 80's François Mitterand, then President of France, is looking for a way to get re-elected. He dug Jean Marie Le Pen (Marine father) out of the woods, put him in the spotlight and used him as a scarecrow to scare the French. Since then, Le Pen, who will admit years later that he never really wanted to be elected, has been used as an excuse by the left but also by the so-called Republican right-wing in France. Now, his daughter Marine Le Pen is used in the same way. Delon never belonged to any Nazi or extreme right-wing group. He just couldn't stand the left especially the massive immigration from muslim countries.

And today, all French people realize that he was right. Why? Because the tongues of some people in the French elite have been loosened and have revealed that the massive immigration was demanded by the employers in order to pay a low cost labor force. Ethnic statistics were forbidden, but the French realized by themselves that the mass of immigrants was too important. A week ago a ministerial survey (I said ministerial), revealed that what the French were denouncing was indeed true. Result was: The uncontrolled massive immigration and especially from Muslim countries has changed the French demography. So, your discussions on here about the extreme right-wing in America have nothing to do with those of the French.

France is overwhelmed by Muslims who terrorize and do not want to assimilate or integrate. All over Europe, the same thing has happened. Denmark has taken restrictive measures against massive uncontrolled immigration. Others are following their model.

Americans have the unfortunate tendency to confuse their society with European societies without understanding their history. for years now the French are suffering suffer from terrorist attacks, knife attacks, throat slitting, rape on teens and the elderly committed by this Muslim immigration. This is also the reason why the way Biden left Afghanistan and the huge flow of refugees arriving in Europe is extremely unpleasant for the majority of Europeans who can't take it anymore.

Anyway, i don't know if Delon is bi but it wouldn't supprise me tbh.

by Anonymousreply 180September 7, 2021 8:24 PM

The idea that Delon is Bi is even more attractive.

by Anonymousreply 181September 7, 2021 8:28 PM

Remembering the films of that time...My God cinema really was an art form at one point. How was that possible? What about diversity? Can't have been good, it wasn't diverse. These films caused so many death of Trans WOC. Those film need to be cancelled Right Now!

by Anonymousreply 182September 8, 2021 12:21 AM

Was Belmondo bisexual?

by Anonymousreply 183September 8, 2021 2:26 AM

Belmondo was sex itself.

by Anonymousreply 184September 8, 2021 2:54 AM

Delon made homophobic comments, though.

I saw him a few times walking in Geneva where he was living. He's short. But I'm 6'3" so most are short

by Anonymousreply 185September 8, 2021 3:05 AM

Delon played gay in “Swann in love” I’ve been meaning to watch this.

by Anonymousreply 186September 8, 2021 3:37 AM

An excellent piece by The New Yorker's Richard Brody on Belmondo.

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by Anonymousreply 187September 8, 2021 7:39 AM

belle grosse bite

What is that?

'That's French!'

by Anonymousreply 188September 8, 2021 7:37 PM

Well well she sure put you in your place

When she called you belle grosse bite to your face!

by Anonymousreply 189September 8, 2021 7:40 PM
Jean-Paul Belmondo is dead to me (2024)

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