Belmondo

The 1970 French crime flick Borsalino featured Alain_Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo as charismatic gangsters in 1930s Marseilles. Belmondo was killed off in that film, but Delon survived to show up in the 1974 sequel Borsalino and Co. (actually filmed just after the original, but not released for several years). Seeking redress for the death of his partner, Roch (Delon) disposes of his enemies in a variety of novel (and gruesome) methods. Both Borsalino and Co. and its predecessor were inspired by Eugene Saccomano's novel -The Bandits of Marseilles.

The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time hood wanted for killing a cop, and Patricia Franchini, an American who sells the International Herald Tribune along the boulevards of Paris. Their relationship develops as Michel hides out from a dragnet. Breathless uses the famous techniques of the French New Wave: location shooting, improvised dialogue, and a loose narrative form. In addition Godard uses his characteristic jump cuts, deliberate "mismatches" between shots, and references to the history of cinema, art, and music. Much of the film's vigor comes from collisions between popular and high culture: Godard shows us pinups and portraits of women by Picasso and Renoir, and the soundtrack includes both Mozart's clarinet concerto and snippets of French pop radio. When Breathless was first released, audiences and critics responded to the burst of energy it gave the French cinema; it won numerous international awards and became an unexpected box-office sensation.

Bob (Jacques Charrier) vient de la banlieue parisienne(signifie les quartiers huppés). Il tombe par hasard sur Alain (Laurent Terzieff), un jeune étudiant existentialiste avec qui il sympathise aussitôt. Ce dernier l’invite à venir à la superboum organisé par Clo (Andrea Parisy), fille de diplomate. Après une brève liaison avec cette dernière, Bob tombe amoureux de Mic (Pascale Petit), une autre fille de la bande d’Alain. Seulement, l’époque veut qu’on ne peut pas se dire ces choses là. Il faut rester libre quitte à fermer ses sentiments à double tour. Le résultat n’en sera que plus tragique…

During the Nazi occupation of France, a troubled young woman, also an atheist, meets a priest who converts her to Catholicism.

When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard (Georges Geret), one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde (Marie Laforet). This box-office smash was the first of four wildly successful collaborations between Belmondo and director Georges Lautner.

Castigliano is leading freight forwarding company at the very edge of the desert in southern Morocco. He hires a new driver to transport secret cargo worth $100 000. Rocco (Jean-Paul Belmondo) finds out the plan and flees with the truck and loot. Castigliano offers the best of his chauffeurs (Lino Ventura) a large reward if he manages to recover the stolen truck. His path leads through the Moroccan Atlas mountains, a world where no one asks for more than he needs to know. The chase begins!

When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard (Georges Geret), one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde (Marie Laforet). This box-office smash was the first of four wildly successful collaborations between Belmondo and director Georges Lautner.

Thérèse Marcoux vit dans une somptueuse demeure aixoise avec son mari, Henri, son fils, Richard, et sa fille, Elisabeth. Cette dernière est amoureuse d’une sorte d’anarchiste prénommé Laszlo qui pousse Henri dans les bras de leur voisine Léda. Thérèse ne voit pas tout cela d’un bon œil et se dispute violemment avec son mari. Ce dernier lui annonce qu’il la quitte pour Léda mais on apprend qu’elle vient d’être assassinée…

Cette pièce de théâtre est basée sur la vie du très réel Edmond Kean, génial comédien britannique qui connut une immense popularité en tant qu'acteur shakespearien. Elle met donc en scène la vie de ce dernier qui, d'une part, est adulé par le public et recherché par la bonne société anglaise et qui, d'autre part, se sent éternellement marginal et exclu. Le "monde" le considère comme un simple amuseur, et Kean lui-même ne peut, en dépit de ses considérables revenus, se défaire de son goût pour la pègre et les cabarets malfamés.