He finally left.
At 88 years old, the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, icon of the cinema and the virile incarnation of the French male, carried out a final stunt, a plunge without return.
The personalities of the seventh art pay homage to him.
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Alain Delon: "I am shattered"
On the side of relatives, actor
Alain Delon
shared his collapse with our colleagues from Europe 1:
"I am shattered
," he says.
He's a friend I'm losing. He's a colleague, we've known each other for 60 years, worked together and been so close to each other. I am upset."
On CNews, the actor continues:
“I am completely devastated. Now I'm going to try to hang in there so as not to do the same thing in five hours ... Notice, it wouldn't be bad if we both left together. It's a part of my life, we started together 60 years ago, ”
said the sacred cinema monster, 85, his voice trembling.
Richard Anconina, a
youngster in
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
,
tells her
“thank you for everything”
in his Instagram story.
"You were born with morale, and you never lost it."
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On BFMTV, Bebel's old friend, the director and lyricist
Philippe Labro
, evokes a man
"of great simplicity"
, when the actor Michel Boujenah remembers on RTL this loved one, met several decades ago:
"J 've learned that five minutes ago, and obviously I'm very sad, but we don't have to be, he couldn't bear to be sad. He had an elegance and a modesty towards suffering that was extraordinary. We must continue to laugh, we must continue to love him. People don't die until they are forgotten and it's impossible to forget Jean-Paul. Jean-Paul is like the Arc de Triomphe, like the Eiffel Tower, it is our Eiffel Tower to us.I am obviously inconsolable but I refuse to be sad. ”
"We were never disappointed with Belmondo"
The actor
Philippe Torreton
, one of the first to speak, shared his emotion on the air at BFMTV, recounting in particular their one and only meeting:
“He was an actor whom I admired enormously.
[…]
He had wanted to have lunch with me and the director of
Presumed Guilty
, whom he had adored and he wanted to tell us.
And that was one of the great moments of my life as an actor. "
Impression shared by
Lorànt Deutsch
, who tells RTL microphone to have played with the actor in Klapisch's film
Maybe
:
“I was lucky to have a day of filming with him. Belmondo was the actor who made us dream,
[…]
a big brother, an icon. It's the biggest one who left.
[…]
We have lost a whole generation of sacred monsters but the pure essence was him
, he raves
.
He was the epitome of the romantic, thunderous guy. Where it tumbles, we know that it will end well or that the story will be incredible.
[…]
We were never disappointed with Belmondo. ”
Richard Berry
expressed his admiration for Le Magnifique, still on RTL
: “He was everyone's friend, he was the friend we would have liked to have. He's the father, the grandfather and above all he was an immense actor with great generosity ”
. Just like the director
Bertrand Blier
who directed it in
Les Acteurs
, released in 2000:
“It's a huge loss. It was a total comfort to shoot with Belmondo… Great actors, it's always a great comfort. ”
Some expressed themselves more soberly, like
Jean Dujardin
and
Michel Denisot
.
"I will miss you… you will be missed so much." Thank you Jean-Paul, ”
writes the interpreter of
The Artist
on his Instagram account.
"For the 2011 tribute, the photographers had warned:" We are going to put our cameras on the steps and it will be to applaud him ". His generosity as a man and an actor invented some of the greatest moments in the history of cinema. Thank you Jean-Paul. Farewell Magnificent ”
, wrote the general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival,
Thierry Frémaux
, on the official Twitter account of the organization, accompanying his message with two photos of Bebel, taken in 2011 when he was awarded a Palme d'or of honor for his entire career.
In 2019, the Festival had once again honored him with the poster for its 71st edition, which featured a kiss from the film
Pierrot le fou
by Jean-Luc Godard with Anna Karina, a cult feature film by the new wave made in 1965.
President
Emmanuel Macron
paid tribute to this monument of French cinema, calling it a “
national treasure
”.