17.09.2021
Photo: MIDO Film
Caption: Tough, unyielding, surrounded by beautiful women and always above things. Jean-Paul Belmondo in the legendary action crime comedy from 1979 Policeman or Grate
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VIDEO He became a star that connected the whole world. He was loved by both sides of the Iron Curtain, and if he had not refused to learn English, he would have easily conquered Hollywood. The whole sympathetic bastard of all time is mourned by the whole world. (Continued from Wednesday, September 15.)
His acting combines traditional education with the modern age to which Jean-Paul Belmondo belonged and the seeming carelessness of the coming 1960s. The rebel of the new wave of French cinema added an informal look to which the young generation easily identified. His new hero was sympathetic, crazy and courageous, he spoke to the audience with an incomprehensible accent of the villains of the Paris suburbs, which he carefully studied.
Cop or grate:
Madman in front of the camera
In 1962, in the historical romance, Cartouche was given the opportunity for the first time to perform several stunts, which he took as a challenge. And another star was born – a stuntman who never forgot to be an actor. He was famous for his huge enthusiasm for the craziest and most dangerous actions, which sometimes resulted in a few serious injuries. The latter suffered in 1985 while filming a television trailer for the crime comedy Bezva finta. The stunts unite most of his roles, in which he was either a persecutor or a persecuted. He was always on the move, and no other actor dared to shoot a chase almost as long as half the film, without losing tension and dynamism. He contributed to the fact that in the eyes of spectators, heroes as well as losers and non-crews can become. Jean-Paul was comical, but he was ridiculous for miles.
Professional:
Like in an Italian comedy
His other tumultuous relationship, full of passion and emotion, could be compared to that with a bit of exaggeration. Laura Antonelli, a spirited Italian eight years younger, completely fell in love and their love lasted until 1989, when he met Nathalia Tardivel. A thirty-year-younger episode actress and former member of the Les Coco Girls music group, she fell madly in love, and she didn’t mind at all that her chosen haste was approaching her sixties. For the first time, the fate of Jean-Paul made him realize that he was not immortal, in 1999, when he had a heart attack right on stage. “At first I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to finish at all costs, but then I don’t remember anything, “France Télévision later revealed. With the face of a professional poker player, Natty also managed his other health complications in 2001, when he suffered a stroke during a holiday in Corsica. According to witnesses, he had visited the world-famous top model and renowned beauty Laetitia Casta shortly before, so it is only speculated that a famous seducer forty-five years older probably worked for her. Belmondo was paralyzed on his right half of his body, and doctors considered his condition critical. Yet he miraculously recovered. As part of his peculiar treatment, he finally married Natty and in the summer of 2003 she gave birth to his daughter Stella.
Adventurer:
In the arms of a gold digger
Natty’s marriage fell apart after six years, followed by endless struggles for a child. Belmondo once asked even the police for help. “My client is very upset about the difficulties he encounters in trying to see his daughter,” said his lawyer at La Gauette de France. Even after the second divorce, the women’s darling was not left alone for long, he found refuge in the arms of the Belgian Playmate Barbara Gandolfi. Forty-three years younger, the sex bomb was apparently no innocent lily, and the authorities suspected it of money laundering. But the beauty insisted that her ex-boyfriend, who runs a network of strip clubs, was to blame. Belmondo also defended his love with his fingernails, but when he found out after four years of relationship that he was gradually turning into a badly plucked goose in her hands, he preferred to break up with her. In the meantime, however, he had to deal with a number of other inconveniences. For example, on New Year’s Eve 2011, thieves robbed him of a Paris apartment, then someone, Stelle’s youngest daughter, began threatening death, so she received police protection. Or so he looked. His name was associated with a long line of beauties, but officially he lived with only a few. Was he able to be faithful to them at all? “It will be better for all parties involved if I tell you yes,” he was heard in Cahiers du cinéma magazine some time ago. “I have beautiful memories of all the women I spent time with.”
Loner:
A never ending adventure
He has worked with the greatest directors of his time, and during his 50-year career he has made more than eighty feature films, art films and blockbusters, which did not miss a record 150 million viewers in cinemas. He wrote his first memoirs, entitled Thirty Years and Twenty-Five Films, as early as 1963. In 1988, he received the Caesar for the film The Journey of a Pampered Child, but refused to accept the award due to a long-standing dispute between the author and his father. In 1995, Empire Magazine ranked him among the 100 sexiest movie stars of all time, and in 2007 he won the highest French award, the Order of the Legion of Honor. In 2008, he last starred on the movie screen as a lone former Marine Charles in Francis Huster’s drama The Man and His Dog, although he was unwell after a stroke in 2001 in Corsica. In 2011, he received the Golden Palm for his life’s work at the Cannes Film Festival, and on that occasion a television documentary about his life, Belmondo, Journey uveden
Man and his dog:
We wrote
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Unique and irreplaceable
In 2012 he became a knight of the Order of Leopold and in October 2013 he received a standing ovation at the Lumière festival in Lyon. On February 9, 2015, he officially announced on RTL television the definitive end of his active artistic career. At the Venice Film Festival in 2016, he was awarded the Golden Lion for his lifelong contribution to world cinema, and in the same year crowds of fans with gusto and interest began to feed into his exciting personal and professional story, which he wrote in the extremely successful monograph My Thousand Lives.. In the Czech Republic, as well as in the world, a large photographic album called Belmondo about Belmond was released at the same time as the biography, and both titles became bestsellers in our country. And in 2017, he received a special César award from the French Film Academy. The legendary Jean-Paul Belmondo died on September 6, 2021 in Paris, and France honored his memory three days later in the courtyard of the Paris Invalides. The funeral in a circle of family and friends took place on September 10, 2021 in the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
