The relatives of the actor, dead during a ski accident at the age of 37, gathered Thursday in the Saint-Eustache church.
Le Monde with AFP
Film, family and friends, Thursday, January 27 in Paris, a last tribute to Gaspard Ulliel, died on January 19th in a ski accident at the age of 37, abruptly interrupting a career of more than twenty years.
The ceremony started around 11 am in the Saint-Eustache church, at the entrance of which was a black and white portrait, cigarette in the mouth, of the one who was a magnetic Saint-Laurent on the big screen. A thousand people – Family and guests – were gathered inside the building, and some 200 others were on his forecoub.
Many heavers of flowers, often white, had been deposited, including those of the Caesar Academy, Actor Vincent Cassel and the Bilingual School Jeannine Manuel in Paris with the inscription “At our dear gaspouille “.
Among the representatives of the world of cinema: Jérémie denier, who embodied Pierre Bergé alongside Gaspard Ulliel in the feature film by Bertrand Bonello – also present -, was one of the people wearing the black coffin.
were also present Pierre Niney, who played the big fashion designer in another adaptation of his life on the big screen, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Léa Seydoux and Nathalie Baye.
The accidental death of Gaspard Ulliel has attracted a multitude of homage to a man who led a beautiful career and was very appreciated in the middle of the 7th art. It was well known to the general public for films such as a long Sunday of Engagement (2004) of Jean-Pierre Gamenet and just the end of the world (2016) from Xavier Dolan, who had earned him the Caesar for the best actor in 2017. He Incarnated a writer finding his family after twelve years of absence, to whom he came to announce his next death.