Jean-Paul Belmondo

To come across "Classe Tous Risques" is like discovering a bottle of marvelous French wine you didn't remember you had, opening it and finding it every bit as delicious as its reputation promised. That's how good this classic fatalistic French gangster...

Among the French New Wave pioneers, Philippe de Broca is the least serious, bringing a breath of fresh air to the romantic comedy and injecting the adventure movie -- most famously "That Man from Rio" with Jean-Paul Belmondo -- with an inspired,...

Nobody writes songs about January in Paris. It's cold and bleak, and the impenetrable rain clouds make 8 a.m. as dark as midnight. It's perfect weather for going to the movies, which is what I do. But I also go to the movies in Paris in April, May and...

Friday October 20, 1995      Claude Lelouch's extravagant melodrama "Les Miserables" is neither a film of the musical nor the umpteenth remake of the Victor Hugo novel, but rather an epic saga of an Everyman whose life parallels that of the hapless...

Friday May 31, 1996      Mark Rappaport's venturesome "From the Journals of Jean Seberg" imagines that the ill-fated actress, an apparent suicide in 1979 at age 40, has risen from the grave to tell us the story of her roller coaster life. Mary Beth...