{"id":9689,"date":"2009-12-08T13:25:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T13:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9689"},"modified":"2023-07-14T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T09:56:54","slug":"how-to-look-cool-in-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/how-to-look-cool-in-a-car\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Look Cool in a Car&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9691\" title=\"jean-paul belmondo_godard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/jean-paul-belmondo_godard.jpg\" alt=\"jean-paul belmondo_godard\" width=\"400\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/12\/jean-paul-belmondo_godard.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/12\/jean-paul-belmondo_godard-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/12\/jean-paul-belmondo_godard-278x265.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to refute the assertion that Jean Paul Belmondo looked damn cool in Jean Luc Godard&#8217;s 1965 road movie Pierrot Le Fou. The film is is one of those obscure but influential pieces of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_New_Wave\">New Wave cinema<\/a> that is scarcely name checked these days \u2013 though it beats many a better known road movie in pure, unadulterated cinematic style.<\/p>\n<p>Belmondo plays a typically gallic existential outlaw who goes on the run with delectable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0439344\/\">Anna Karina<\/a> from Paris to the Med \u2013 a coterie of thuggish villains after the pair at every turn. Classic japes with a uniquely elegant edge _ and one that directly inspired Bonnie and Clyde \u2013 perhaps the most famous Hollywood version of the lover-on-the-road-commiting-crime genre. If such a thing actually exists.<\/p>\n<p>The question remains for all you Francophile petrolheads: what is the car Jean-Paul is driving?<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ou8xeUHwu1E\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Paul Belmondo nails it in one of our favourite French road flicks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,1781,110],"tags":[1972,115,212,2530],"class_list":["post-9689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-culture","category-blog","tag-culture","tag-film","tag-french","tag-french-car"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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