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Jean-Paul Belmondo, charismatic Gallic tough-guy actor and face of the French New Wave – obituary
Jack Palance and Mick Jagger, with fleshy lips and a broken nose (the legacy of a playground punch-up in youth). But, like many men with irregular features, he generated an atmosphere of danger and excitement that wove its spell on women from a variety of different backgrounds – Jean Seberg’s American student abroad in A Bout de Souffle; shy, repressed Jeanne Moreau in Moderato Cantabile (1960); earthy Claudia Cardinale in La Viaccia in 1961; and the cool, elegant ice maiden played by Catherine Deneuve in La Sirène du Mississippi (1969).
