Word: belmondo
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Before long, mother and daughter are half in love with the same shy young intellectual (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the son of a local tradesman. As the Germans retreat, they eagerly start back to Rome, but on the way they are captured and raped by what looks like a gang of goums, wild mountain fighters from French Morocco...
Adultery is the cleverest of the seven episodes-a cynical little satire on a well-known Gallic institution: the ménage à trois. While dining out one day, a young bachelor (played by Jean-Paul Belmondo, the post-existentialist punk in Breathless, who proves roguishly engaging in romantic comedy) gives a neglected wife (Dany Robin) the old let's-do-it look. She looks right back. Wearing his horns jauntily, the husband invites the bachelor home for lunch. "My wife hates money," he murmurs casually, "so she spends it as fast as she can. By the way, when...
...Filmed on the cheap ($90,000) by an obscure, 30-year-old film critic (Jean-Luc Godard) of the French New Wave, Breathless would seem to offer little to the average star-struck spectator-it features a Hollywood reject (Jean Seberg) and a yam-nosed anonymity (Jean-Paul Belmondo). What's more, it asks the moviegoer to spend 89 minutes sitting still for a jaggedly abstract piece of visual music that is often about as easy to watch as Schoenberg is to listen to. Then why, in the last year, has this picture done a sellout business all over...
...camera finds the hero (Belmondo) flobbing around Marseille, sucking a cigarette, nothing to do: a portrait of the Frenchman as a young punk. Casually, he steals a car, roars north. Sixty. Seventy. Eighty. Police give chase. Gun in glove compartment. Why not? He kills a policeman, panics, runs. Paris. Meets bedmate, an American girl (Seberg), on the street, makes date, strolls off. Police spot him, give chase. Loses them in subway, goes to a men's room. Man washing hands. Punk slugs him, empties his pockets. Girl goes home, finds him in her bed. "Why did you come...