The Alpe d’Huez Comedy Film Festival is finally launched. Monday January 13, the opening ceremony of the 28th edition of the event brought together a lot of people on the snowy slopes. Marked by the touching tribute to Michel Blanc, this day was able to count on the presence of two close friends of the actor who died on October 4.
On the stage of the Palais des sports de l’Alpe d’Huez, Gérard Jugnot and Marie-Anne Chazel, Michel Blanc’s friends in the Splendid troupe, took the stage, not without clearly visible emotion. After the broadcast of multiple extracts from the actor’s career, the entire audience sang the words of the cult song “Bronzés font du ski” in chorus. “When will I see you again, wonderful land?” »
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“He had no right to do that”
In front of the crowd, Gérard Jugnot remembered his meeting with Michel Blanc at college. “We were in class together, we were improvising things and the teacher told us: ‘You two, never together again!’” he said. “He was wrong. » And to be moved by the sudden departure of his best friend, who died following an anaphylactic shock: “He had no right to do that… But hey, that’s life. »
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On the night of October 3 to 4, Michel Blanc died at the age of 72. In the middle of the night, Gérard Jugnot reacted on Instagram: “Fuck Michel… What have you done to us…” A week later, the actor could count on the support of the other stars of Splendid – Bruno Moynot, Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte and Marie-Anne Chazel – at the funeral of Michel Blanc, organized at the Saint-Eustache church in Paris.
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