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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave
Description: Matthew Sweet explores Belmondo's central role in the revolutionary cinema of 1960s France and how he became one of the most celebrated screen actors of his generation with Ginette Vincendeau, Lucy Bolton and Phuong Le.Ginette Vincendeau is Professor of Film Studies at King's College London.
Lucy Bolton is Reader in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London.
Phuong Le is a film critic based in Paris.A BFI season focused on the films of Francois Truffaut runs across January and February and includes a BFI Player collection and a batch of Blu-rays being...