I read this morning that the French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo had died at the age of 88 in Paris.
Belmondo had a long and illustrious career in the European cinema and though he was famed worldwide he never made films in Hollywood, preferring to make his name in his homeland.
The movie that launched him as "the face of the New Wave" and won him comparisons to Marlon Brando and James Dean was the debut film of Jean-Luc Godard which was called "Breathless" by the English-speaking world.
Much of the movie was shot with a hand-held camera and was mostly ad-libbed by Belmondo and his co-star, the American Jean Seberg.
I don't think I'd ever seen the film so I found it on a streaming service and Judy and I watched it today.
Like most French films, it is very "talky" and seems at times like it's going nowhere but the beautiful faces of the actors command one's attention.
It has since been acclaimed as one of the best films of all time.
Seberg lived half of her life in France and died at the age of 40 in what police ruled as a probable suicide.
