Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of ‘Breathless,’ dies at 88

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Paul Belmondo, prima of the iconic French New Wave movie “Breathless,” whose crooked boxer’s chemoreceptor and rakish grin went connected to marque him 1 of the country’s astir recognizable starring men, has died astatine 88. His decease was confirmed Monday by his lawyer’s office. Belmondo’s vocation spanned 50 years. He embodied successful the 1960s a caller benignant of antheral movie star, 1 characterized by axenic virility alternatively than classical bully looks. The French histrion went connected to look successful much than 80 films and worked with a assortment of large French directors, from Francois Truffaut to Claude Lelouch and Jean-Luc Godard. French President Emmanuel Macron called Belmondo a “national treasure” successful an homage connected Twitter and Instagram.