Broadcast this Tuesday, November 5 on C8, The Alpageur features Jean-Paul Belmondo as a muscular mercenary. A classic thriller, which is also a family story for the actor, who died in 2021.
It is missing from French cinema. Jean-Paul Belmondo was a sacred monster of culture, and his death in September 2021 marked the public. Proof of the actor's popularity: a national tribute was paid to him three days after his death. At the end of October 2024, Paul Belmondo paid tribute to his father with a new photo full of energy. Obviously, many of the actor's films have remained legendary. One of them, The Ace of Acesthe second biggest success of “Bébel’s” career, was even the very first feature film broadcast on Canal + in 1984, and was rebroadcast this Monday, November 4, 2024 to celebrate the channel’s forty years. This Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 9:20 p.m. on C8, time for another film, with a very different atmosphere: the thriller The Alpagueur.
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Released in theaters in March 1978, The Alpagueur follows the homonymous character (Roger Pilard in civilian life), played by Belmondo, who tracks down criminals and pimps on behalf of the French government. His new mission is to kill the Sparrowhawk, public enemy number 1. The mercenary tries to gain the trust of Costa Valdès, an accomplice of the Sparrowhawk, who since his arrest has been obstinately silent. No downtime in this plot full of twists and turns, in which Bruno Cremer, another great actor of French cinema, plays Jean-Paul Belmondo's target. For the actorOut of breath and of Cop or thugwhich shares a surprising connection with Charles de Gaulle, the film also has a fun family aspect. Her younger sister, Muriel Belmondo, plays a small role in this adventure, that of a flight attendant.
Muriel Belmondo, a career close to her brother, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Muriel Belmondo will obviously not have the same career as her brother. She appeared at his side again in The Solitaire (1987), thriller that the actor considered to be the one “too much“, then in The Unknown in the house (1992). In 2007, she donated with her two brothers, Jean-Paul and Alain, all of the works of their father, the sculptor Paul Belmondo, to the city of Boulogne-Billancourt.
