Remembering Jean Paul Belmondo

Remembering Jean Paul Belmondo

The French film great died earlier this month aged 88

Words: Tom Ward

Born on the 9th of April 1933, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, Jean Paul Belmondo would define a cinematic movement as the star of the French New Wave of the 1960s, starring in films such as Breathless (1960) and That Man From Rio (1964).

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