The art of movies started for me with Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature, “Breathless,” from 1960, and therefore with its star, Jean-Paul Belmondo, who died on Monday, at the age of eighty-eight. I first ...

The former boxer was a standout in New Wave classics and then an action star and box office draw in the 1980s. By Jordan Mintzer, Duane Byrge Jean-Paul Belmondo, the rugged French actor who swept to ...

Jean-Paul Belmondo, the French cinema star best known for his performance in Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” in 1959, has died, his lawyer confirmed to the news agency AFP on Monday. He was 88. A cause ...

Whether he was doing his own stunts in action films or being nonchalant in literary adaptations, the actor was magnetic. By Elisabeth Vincentelli One word often comes up when reading about Jean-Paul ...

French actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, right, and Catherine Deneuve, in 1969. They starred together in François Truffaut's film Mississippi Mermaid. French film star Jean-Paul Belmondo, whose breakout role ...

PARIS, France — Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of the iconic French New Wave film “Breathless,” whose crooked boxer’s nose and rakish grin went on to make him one of the country’s most recognizable leading ...

PARIS — Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of the iconic French New Wave film “Breathless,” whose crooked boxer’s nose and rakish grin went on to make him one of the country’s most recognizable leading men, has ...

PARIS — Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of the iconic French New Wave film “Breathless,” whose crooked boxer’s nose and rakish grin went on to make him one of the country’s most recognizable leading men, has ...

PARIS — Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of the iconic French New Wave film “Breathless,” whose crooked boxer’s nose and rakish grin went on to make him one of the country’s most recognizable leading men, has ...