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Belmondo in 1960: “He is not handsome. Nonchalant and violent, here is Jean-Paul Belmondo. "

2021-09-06T15:07:15.608Z


THE FIGARO ARCHIVES - Jean-Paul Belmondo died on Monday at the age of 88 in Paris. At these beginnings, he reversed the codes: his talent took precedence over his beauty, embodying the new hero of modern times.


Article published in Jours de France of July 30, 1960

Jean-Paul Belmondo

He is not beautiful.

A year ago he was unknown.

He invents an art of playing and a lifestyle.

Careless and violent, here is the hero of the new romanticism

.

Venice is still a lovers' paradise.

Since their marriage four years ago, Jean-Paul Belmondo - the revelation

of Breathless

- and his wife Élodie, dreamed of a honeymoon in the city of a thousand gondolas.

Thanks to the film he is shooting in Italy, they have just made their dream come true.

In the following pages, Yves Salgues tells you the story of this unusual actor in whom a whole youth has identified.

Thanks to him, seduction has changed its face

In Venice, all languid under the heavy stormy sky of a Sunday in July, only the gondolier did not take them for a couple of vagabonds: he received a sumptuous tip from them.

He wore faded blue jeans and a wide open shirt - faithful to this scruffy style which is one of the elements of his overwhelming popularity.

She, shantung pants

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Source: lefigaro

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