Jean-Paul Belmondo
May, 1962
A top a pedestal in a small Parisian park stands the statue of a chubby cherub which may yet become a shrine for the downbeat generation of mid-century France. Its unlikely model, posing for his sculptor father at the age of two, was yam-nosed, satchel-mouthed Jean-Paul Belmondo, today a 29-year-old ex-pug ugly who has become, with his ferally masculine portrayal of the icy killer in Breathless, the overnight antihero of the nouvelle vague in Gallic moviemaking, and the unwilling demigod of an a...
