A funeral

"Belmondo is our family, brother, cousin, uncle, charming friend, superpowered dad, he's a hero with a thousand faces." On September 9, 2021, the funeral of legendary actor Jean-Paul Belmondo was held at the Les Invalides in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron said in his speech. As a French "national" actor, Belmondo played countless wonderful roles in his life, and Macron believed that these characters, whether cavalry, police or even rogues, were the portrayal of French life for sixty years, so "Belmondo promised himself to France".

The 88-year-old actor is regarded as "the ugliest beautiful man in France" and the most memorable face in the "New Wave" of French cinema. In 1956, when he first entered the film industry, he participated in Godard's famous work "Exhausted", fixed his natural cynical expression in the hearts of generations of film fans, and left the most famous death declaration in film history: "It is really hateful." "A bad boy is not only not hated, but also has a style of raising his hands and feet, even death is so crisp and clean, Belmondo has become the darling of the French film industry so easily."

Since then, Belmondo has successively starred in films such as "Women Are Women", "Father Leon Mohan", "Cheating Marriage" and other films, and has cooperated with a number of New Wave film directors such as Godard and Truffaut in the 1950s, and has maintained long-term friendships. Later, Godard's "iron fan"— the Italian director Bertolucci — also specially put Belmondo's "Piero the Mad" into the film.

According to Belmondo's family, he "walked very quietly", leaving us with a glittering memory and a solemn funeral. Arguably, France's state funeral for Belmondeau is a mutual achievement between the film nation and the legendary movie star, proving that culture is still the best healer in this era of tearing and turbulent epidemics.

Belmondo's former friends attended this solemn funeral, and those familiar faces appeared one after another, as if they were mobile film history. Among the many celebrities who attended the funeral, I noticed in particular another legendary actor, Alain Delon, 86, who was helped out of the car by the staff and staggered on crutches to hug Belmondo's relatives.

Alain Deron and Belmondo's friendship lasted a lifetime, and the two co-starred in a total of 9 films. Before becoming famous, he collaborated on "Lady Qingben", and later collaborated in the famous director René Clement's "Paris War" (1966), Jacques Dre's "Jianghu Dragon Tiger" (1970) and other films, "Jianghu Dragon Tiger" because of the collection of these two most famous movie stars, set a box office record that year.

There is a bullet screen on the funeral video: "Princess Sisi is with you in heaven..." This sentence poked the tears of many old fans, and the actor of "Princess Sisi", Romei Schneider, who worked with Belmondo in the movie "Miss Angel", and was engaged to Alain Delon and had a deep relationship. In 1982, Schneider suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 44 because he could not bear the tragedies of his life such as the loss of his son. Now, in a state of confusion, Alain Deron waved to the onlookers, and his once charming blue eyes were a little cloudy.

Although some say that Belmondo's death is the end of an era, death is never the end of the legend, only part of the legend. In the words of director Melville, "Become immortal and die." ”