Last Updated on: 10th July 2023, 03:08 am
France is Gearing Up For A Rare National Tribute To French Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo
France will pay French Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo the rare honor of an actor this week in tribute to its national monument, the Presidency announced Tuesday as his colleagues and the public mourned the death of a great icon of French cinema Golden age.
More than six and a half million people in France watched special television screenings of Belmondo’s films after news of his death was announced on Monday, audiovisual data showed when the accessories of an actor whose smile were unveiled boastful and aftershocks in the national conscience.
French film legend Brigitte Bardot, who starred in several films with Belmondo, including Famous Love Affairs in 1961, said in a statement to AFP that she felt “very sad” and “thought about him.”
“I am so sorry, as was his dog Chipie, who was his last and most loyal companion,” said Bardot, who is now a prominent animal rights activist and whose Belmondo Foundation adopted the abandoned mongrel dog Chipie.
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“I miss him and I don’t want to talk about him anymore. The greatest pain can only be expressed in silence,” she said.
President Emmanuel Macron’s office said the national tribute to Belmondo will be held Thursday at the Invalides memorial in Paris, an extremely rare honor for an actor, despite singer Charles Aznavour, who has appeared in several films, ago such a tribute was celebrated at his death in 2018.
“We lost a leader,” Jean Dujardin, one of the most prominent actors of the current generation of French actors, told BFM TV.
“He was a leader, Jean-Paul, someone who told us, don’t worry, have fun.”
Famous French actor Alain Delon, a friend and rival of Belmondo, said on Monday that he was “completely devastated” by the news of Belmondo’s death.
Even the French police greeted an actor who starred in many thrillers like 1979’s ‘Cop or Hood’. “Even though it was movies, you were one of us, Mr. Belmondo,” the National Police tweeted.
Belmondo, who became known as part of the French New Wave film movement with films like Jean-Luc Godard’s “À bout de souffle,” is a household name and has appeared in 80 films of various genres, including comedies and thrillers.
His family announced Monday that he died peacefully at his Paris home at the age of 88.
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