Perhaps Karina gave adequate attention to Jean-Paul Belmondo recently with her review of the Pierrot le Fou Criterion DVD (though she mainly focused on Anna Karina), but the actor turns 75 today, and according to David Hudson at GreenCine, he’s not getting enough love on this monumental occasion. So, here’s a fun clip of him duking it out with Alain Delon in Jacques Deray’s Borsalino.
My introduction to Belmondo was with Pierrot, and that is still my favorite of his films (I would love to paint my face blue in his honor today). Yet I chose this scene from the lesser known and lesser regarded film because Belmondo and Delon equally co-represent the epitome of cool in French cinema, but I prefer Belmondo’s more rubber-faced, gangly, comical kind of cool guy. And while the fight ends in a draw, I think Belmondo gets in the better blows.
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