When she talked about it before his sudden death, in 2013, at the age of 74Bernadette Lafont always had the same emotion: died in 1988, his daughter Paulina was truly the great drama of his life. However, the young woman was well on her way to becoming her mother’s worthy heir! Sublime with her blond hair and blue eyes, the youngest of the family had already started a great career with about fifteen films to her credit.
But as she begins to tire of being the new idol of French cinema, and the whirlwinds of Parisian life where she has lived since the start of her career (where she notably met her friend Pascale Ogier, who also died suddenly), the young woman retreats for a summer to the mountains of her childhood and goes hiking, alone, to relax. From this walk, she will never return.
If thewe now know that Pauline Lafont died that day, falling into a ravine due to a landslide, her family did not find her right away and the craziest theories ignited in the media and among all French people, passionate about this unexplained disappearance. Which will end up being about three months later, when the body of the young woman is found… totally by chance!
In effect, it is a shepherd who ends up falling on the remains of the young womanwhen he comes to cut wood in a fairly hostile area and above all, only a few hundred meters from the search perimeter established at the time of his death. The young woman is quickly identified thanks to her jewelry, her clothes and then to her teeth and can finally be buried with dignity. But would one day have found his body if this farmer in the region had not decided that day to cut wood? No one will ever know…
Deceased since 2013, Bernadette Lafont joined her daughter in her final resting place, in the Cévennes property of the family where the ancestors of the clan are also buried. Leaving behind her two other children, Elisabeth and David, torn apart by pain but more united than ever.