“I have always had a taste for a waterfall”: when Jean-Paul Belmondo returned to one of his best scenes in his career

Jean Paul Belmondo was really king of waterfalls in France. Since the 1960s, the one who has been excellent has reached the highest exploitation on the hexagonal movie screen, which increases the limit that was possible from the actor. And yet he always had a scene.

“A little tincture of fear”

Show A nice gesture The best presented by Pierre Lescure, featuring rare images of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Henry Vernouil, leads to one of the greatest success in shooting: fear in the city.

Guignolo’s translator and Marginal States his love for taking risks: “I like it. I always had the taste of the waterfall. When I was little, I liked it. I always liked the circus and did the culbs. Besides, I think of such movies. You don’t have to make them unless you make waterfalls.

Recall that fear in the city still contains an impressive sequence in which Bell stands and stands on the subway without attachments or protection. A cult moment:

Made without special effects

“With a real actor, without any special effects, you go to the end of human forces.Recalls the director of the Sicilian clan Henry Vernuel. “So you will stay trustworthy. You will stay in dangerous scenes, you stay in athletic power – and Jean -Paul Belmondo has this athletic force and can do it – but it doesn’t go crazy. We’re afraid of it.

And we hear it! Especially since the film includes other waterfalls such as a chase on top of the gallery lapai.

In fear of the city, Belmondo and Vernal are not in the first collaboration, as they had previously shot a segment of the French and love (1960), the monkey in winter (1962), Saturdays in Zuidocotes and the Sun Hundred Thousand Dollars (1964), as well as Cassé (1971). Then they will cooperate on the body of my enemy (1976) and Morfalus (1984).

Fear in the city will receive 3.94 million permits when it came to April 9, 1974.