It was him looking impossibly cool in Godard’s Breathless with a Gitane constantly in his gob that got me thinking (as a 19 yo) smoking was a great and necessary fashion accessory. The bastard.
I don’t recall ever seen him in a non-Godard film…
He was so huge in Europe, that you'd know Belmondo without knowing his movies. He was iconic. I can't name a single Belmondo film I've seen, but I've seen him in several films on German TV.
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