French star Jean-Paul Belmondo is to receive a special tribute at the 64th annual Cannes Film Festival.
Aspecial day-long celebration of the 77-year-old actor's life and workwill be held on May 17, culminating with the premiere of thedocumentary Belmondo: The Career.
The festival'schairman Gilles Jacob and General Delegate Thierry Frémaux praisedBelmondo in an official statement, citing him as one of the mostacclaimed legends in the history of French cinema.
"We aredelighted that he has agreed to attend this gala evening in celebrationof his talent and career," Jacob and Frémaux wrote. "His range andpersonal charisma, the precision of his acting, his cocky wit, the easewith which he carries himself have made him, along with Jean Gabin andMichel Simon, one of the greatest French actors of all time, a fact towhich many films bear ample witness."
Belmondo is perhaps bestknown as the most prominent star of the New Wave film movement in the1960s, having burst onto the scene in Jean-Luc Godard's groundbreaking1959 drama Breathless.
Besides working with Godard further on A Woman is a Woman and Pierrot le Fou,the actor went on to collaborate with some of the most well-knownFrench filmmakers, including Francois Truffaut on the romance thriller Mississippi Mermaid, and Claude Lelouch on his World War II adaptation of Les Misérables.
It was previously announced that Robert De Niro will preside over the jury at this year's festival.
The 64th annual Cannes Film Festival will run from May 11 to May 22.
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