The comedian, dead, Wednesday, at the age of 37, a suites of a ski accident, leaves behind him a gracious character gallery.
Le Monde
It has been on the screen a Saint Laurent magnetic and a writer at the end of life upset. Only 37 years old, Gaspard Ulliel died, Wednesday, January 19, following a ski accident, ending a brilliant career started more than twenty years ago.
- ” Egares “, André Téchiné
The actor is only 19 years old when he turns the egérés, under the direction of André Téchiné, in 2003. He embodies an offender in the caval which, during the exodus of June 1940, takes under his wing Two children and their mother, a troubling young widow. With this role, concentrated with strengths and injuries, he won his second appointment at Caesar of the best male hope. The year before, it was in the same category with the comedy embrasez who you will want, from Michel Blanc.
- “A long sunday of engagement”, from Jean-Pierre Gamenet
The third appointment at the Caesar of the best male hope will be good for Gaspard Ulliel. The young comedian wins the statue in 2005 for a long Sunday of engagement, Jean-Pierre Gamenet, in which he embodies Manech, the fiancé of Mathilde (Audrey Tautou) disappeared in 1917 in the trenches, that the girl refuses to believe death. . In this superproduction that made more than four million entries, Gaspard Ulliel embodies a young man suspended between childhood and madness. His grace in this role is equal only his freshness.
- ” The princess of Montpensier “, from Bertrand Tavernier
In 2010, he plays Henri de Guise in the Princess of Montpensier, an ambitious period of Bertrand Tavernier, with Mélanie Thierry and Lambert Wilson. In this love story on the background of XVI religious wars e turned in cinemascope, he embodies with all the ardor of his youth, the young cousin of the Princess of Montpensier.
- “Saint Laurent”, from Bertrand Bonello
It is with the Saint Laurent, from Bertrand Bonello, in 2014 that Gaspard Ulliel embodies his first role as a complex and powerful. After a year of work where he tries to find the voice so singular of the couturier, he delivers a dark and fragile character who makes him known internationally.
Named as the best actor in Caesars, it is finally Pierre Niney who wins for the same role in another Yves Saint Laurent, of Jalil lespert. But in this role – that of his life, he confessed -, Gaspard Ulliel reaches a splendid maturity.
- ” Just the end of the world “, from Xavier Dolan
Louis, homosexual, successful author, finds his family after twelve years of absence to announce “his next and irremediable death”. The shadow of his saint Laurent nourished the composition of this new and disturbing role, this time directed by Xavier Dolan in 2016. The young Canadian director films this son lavished as an alter ego, stranger among his own, blinded by the Family hysteria. He will win his second Caesar, this time, the best actor.