Cinema is in mourning. This Wednesday, January 19, 2022, Gaspard Ulliel died at the Grenoble University Hospital. The actor had been helicoptered in emergency after hitting a skier at the crossroads of two blue slopes. A terrible news for the cinematographic universe which multiplies the tributes on the social networks. Shocked by the death of the 37-year-old comedian, singer Inna Modja posted a touching message on her Instagram account. “Gaspard. May your beautiful soul rest gently! Your extreme kindness and your natural elegance always touched me every time we met. We will miss you… I am so saddened. Thinking of your loved ones.
An emblematic figure of French cinema, the companion of Gaëlle Pietri had unanimous support by slipping into the skin of the character of Manech in the famous feature film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, “A long engagement Sunday”. Moviegoers were also won over by his interpretation of Saint-Laurent in the eponymous film released in 2014. A talented actor, Gaspard Ulliel had had the opportunity to question death during his career. In 2016, the muse of the Chanel house confided in the afterlife in the columns of Trois Couleurs. “At first, I approached the character quite morbidly, and eventually I tried to bring him into the light. For me, this path to death is luminous, it is a liberation”
“This character who inevitably advances towards death is perhaps the only one who is truly alive. He returns to this house after twelve years of absence, like the nomad who returns to the sedentary people: they have not moved, they have remained in their frozen world, whereas he is constantly in motion, he is dead advancing, a dead man standing”. A rather positive vision of death.