Exposition Belmondo, le Magnifique

Please note: combined exhibition and Méliès museum tickets give access to the Méliès museum on the same day as the exhibition visit.

Free admission for children under 6 is granted only on site at the Cinémathèque, upon presentation of a supporting document. Timed tickets; booking of the visit slot is compulsory.

Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday to Friday, 12pm to 7pm. Weekends, school holidays and public holidays, 11am to 8pm. Early closing at 6pm on the second Thursday of each month.

Closed on Tuesdays and 25 December. Exhibition Belmondo, le Magnifique, from 7 October 2026 to 31 January 2027. Jean-Paul Belmondo, a true icon of French cinema, embodies a generation of bold and innovative actors. His legendary role in À Bout de Souffle (1960) marks the start of a meteoric career, in which he made up to eight films in a single year.

This athletic actor never stopped pushing boundaries, moving between comedy, action and drama, with contagious energy and an undiminished passion that left an indelible mark on the history of cinema. This exhibition pays tribute to one of the greatest names in cinema. Belmondo is the actor par excellence, the one who carried cinema with his joy of performing, his elegant nonchalance and his contagious laughter across 90 films in which he combined daring, charm and authenticity.

Thanks to his unique style, his taste for risk and his famous stunts, he revolutionised the action film genre, becoming a symbol of modern man on screen.

An exhibition produced by the Cinémathèque française – curated by Clémentine Deroudille