Belmondo?
"Don't know", your children or teenagers may have answered since Monday.
Or vaguely in name.
But if “Bébel” is heritage, how can they be introduced to his immense filmography?
What has aged or, on the contrary, improved?
Netflix offers eighteen films with the actor, in quite different genres, but especially his thriller and comedy from the 1970s and 1980s.
The historical channels are also releasing the armada in the coming days.
You can always strum at random, but films emerge.
“L'As des aces”, of course, for his relationship with a child that his character protects, in the midst of war, heroism, the 1936 Olympics, Hitler, aerial stunts. Difficult to generalize, as evidenced by Vincent Perrot, journalist at RTL and author of a reference documentary on the actor. “I have a 10-year-old son, whom I am introducing to a cinema culture. But he doesn't really like seeing children in the movies! At
L'As des As
, he preferred
Le Cerveau
, a big pantalonnade with Bébel and Bourvil, which has aged very well. And in front of
Le Guignolo
, which is not my favorite, he was stunned to see him in boxer shorts with red polka dots hanging under the chopper. He said to me:
He's amazing, this guy.
"
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The host went from surprise to surprise with his son: "He did not hang on too much to the
Magnificent
, but I tried without believing
Itinerary of a spoiled child
, and he loved the adventure, the scene with the lions, a man who balances his life to remake it.
I feel myself for
A Monkey in Winter
, but I'll wait a bit.
The film is literary and drunkenness is a bit early… ”
An eternal child
So you have to listen to yourself, try.
Philippe Lombard, who will publish “Les grandes Gueules du cinéma français” in October on Gabin, Belmondo, Ventura and Delon, and father of two children aged 14 and 18, immersed them very early in “L'Homme de Rio” and "The Tribulations of a Chinese in China"
: “It's comics taking shape, real Tintin, they understand all the references.
Yesterday (
this Monday
), we watched
the Ace of Aces
as a family, and they loved it.
For them, Belmondo is a blanket, a guy for whom nothing is serious, who has monster nerve and does incredible things "Vincent Perrot agrees:" The children find him super funny.
Belmondo is a big kid.
"
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Obviously, we can wait a bit for “Fear of the city” and its bloody murders, even if the scene where Bébel climbs onto the metro, one of his biggest stunts, is all the rage among some teens. And do you have to understand everything to love? “I saw
The Magnificent,
kid. It's not such an easy film, but it made people dream and we talked about it in the playground, ”remembers Philippe Lombard.
For Christophe Ernault, creator of the magazine “Schnock”, which revere vintage and popular culture, and devoted an issue to Belmondo, the latter forever represents adolescence. “His comic strip side made a huge impression on me. He still inspired Cobra, this character from a cult manga. »Cobra, one of the stars of« Récré A2 »from the 80s. The opportunity to do double duty, by telling our offspring about the beginnings of animation.