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Jean Paul Belmondo: Screen Icons (French, DVD)
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Jean Paul Belmondo: Screen Icons (French, DVD)
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5-disc box set highlighting the work of the effortlessly cool Jean
Paul Belmondo. 'Breathless' (1960), is Jean-Luc Godard's
groundbreaking tale of the brief love affair between petty criminal
Michel (Belmondo) and young American student Patricia (Jean
Seberg). Michel has killed a motorcycle cop and is now hiding out
in Patricia's Paris apartment, but the police are getting closer,
and as Michel falls deeper in love with Patricia, his time also
gets shorter and shorter. Godard's film, one of the first and most
important statements of the French New Wave, caused a revolution in
the way films were made, opening up many new, previously untried
possibilities for cinema. 'Pierrot Le Fou' (1965), is one of
Godard's best films in which Ferdinand (Belmondo) leaves his wife
and child and runs off with the babysitter Marianne (Anna Karina).
The pair head south to find Marianne's brother, Ferdinand gets
caught up in Marianne's crimes along the way as the pair spiral
towards destruction. Memorable for Raoul Coutard's deep and lush
photography, it offers a spontaneous musical sequence under the
pine trees, elements of the gangster genre and a tragic account of
the transience of love, meanwhile Godard manages to address the
nature of the film medium itself. In 'Le Professionnel' , Belmondo
plays French secret agent Joss Beaumont, sent to Africa to
assassinate a head of state. Before he can complete his task
however, the political climate changes, meaning Beaumont is
sacrificed to the authorities and jailed. After escaping, he
returns to France, warning his old superiors that he intends to
complete his mission when the African leader arrives on a state
visit. In 'Stavisky' (1974), Belmondo plays the French con-man
extraordinaire, who managed to charm his way into the highest
strata of French society, mainly on the back of phony bonds. Set in
the period prior to WWII, the resulting financial scandal shook
national confidence and came close to ending in civil war. Set in
the vineyards of Provence, 'A Double Tour' (1959), concerns the
death of Leda (Antonella Lualdi), who is having an affair with her
neighbour, the local Patron, Henri Marceaux (Jacques Dacqmine).
Henri's son and wife are both aware of the affair, indeed the son
has been sampling Leda's charms for himself. Belmondo himself plays
an Hungarian idler, the admirer of Henri's daughter (Jeanne
Valerie).
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