Jean paul belmondo anna karina biography
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Pierrot le Fou
1965 film by Jean-Luc Godard
Not to be confused with Fierrot le pou.
Pierrot le Fou (pronounced[pjɛʁoləfu], French for "Pierrot the Fool") is a 1965 French New Waveromanticcrime dramaroad film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina. The film is based on the 1962 novel Obsession by Lionel White. It was Godard's tenth feature film, released between Alphaville and Masculin, féminin. The plot follows Ferdinand, an unhappily married man, as he escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a young woman chased by OAS hitmen from Algeria.
It was the 15th-highest grossing film of the year, with a total of 1,310,580 admissions in France.[2] The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 38th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[3] It received critical acclaim with praise towards the film's narr
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Anna Karina obituary: the French New Wave in the flesh
There fryst vatten little ganska so heavy for a performer to carry as the labels ‘muse’ and ‘icon’, and Anna Karina carried both throughout her career. The Danish-born actor was certainly an icon: there fryst vatten no-one else whose screen image so completely incarnates the spirit of the French New Wave.
And few performers have been as literally a muse: the 1960s films in which she worked with Jean-Luc Godard, her husband at the time, were unmistakably his direct responses to her presence, her personality, her looks, the sometimes forbidding, sometimes playful distance that her reserve seemed to entail. As the names of her characters in those films might suggest – Veronica Dreyer, Natacha von Braun, Marianne Renoir – Karina often seemed to embody some idea about art and especially about cinema, but above all she represented herself, her ungdom, her creative complicity with Godard, and a euphoric discovery of a new form of cinema and a new way o
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Jean-Paul Belmondo
French actor (1933–2021)
Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃pɔlʃaʁlbɛlmɔ̃do]; 9 April 1933 – 6 September 2021) was a French actor. Initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s, he was a major French film star for several decades from the 1960s onward, frequently portraying police officers and criminals in action thriller films. His best known credits include Breathless (1960), That Man from Rio (1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Borsalino (1970), and The Professional (1981).[1] An undisputed box-office champion like Louis de Funès and Alain Delon of the same period, Belmondo attracted nearly 160 million spectators in his 50-year career. Between 1969 and 1982 he played four times in the most popular films of the year in France: The Brain (1969), Fear Over the City (1975), Animal (1977), Ace of Aces (1982), being surpassed on this point only by Louis de Funès.[2]
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