The Festival pays tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo

The Festival de Cannes pays tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo this year, by dedicating a special evening to him this evening. The evening rundown includes the screening of a documentary, a dinner followed by a party to celebrate the actor and his career.

“Alongside Jean Gabin and Michel Simon, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of the greatest French actors of all time, thanks to the diversity of the roles he has played, his charismatic personality, the accuracy when acting, his cocky humour and easy elegance”, said Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux. The Festival de Cannes is paying tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo today, with a special evening. The actor has always worked with the greatest film-makers, regardless of the genre of film in which he has starred, and won a Caesar award in 1989 for his role in Itinéraire d’un enfant gâté (Itinerary of a Spoilt Child) by Claude Lelouch. His career is traced back in the documentary to be screened tonight, Belmondo, itinéraire…by Vincent Perrot and Jeff Domenech.
Tribute will not just be paid tonight, as the actor was put in the spotlight last Thursday when the film 100 000 dollars au soleil (Greed in the Sun) by Henri Verneuil was screened at the plage Macé. The Cinéma de la Plage will screen another film tomorrow, this time, Le Magnifique (How to Destroy the Reputation of the Greatest Secret Agent) by Philippe de Broca.

A.C.