It has been three years since Gaspard Ulliel tragically died during a skiing accident on a slope in the resort of La Rosière, in Savoie, where he was spending his vacation with friends. The tragedy occurred just two days after he celebrated the birthday of his son, Orso.
Xavier Dolan pays tribute to Gaspard Ulliel
Many personalities from the world of cinema were deeply saddened and upset by his disappearance, notably the actress Léa Seydoux and the director Xavier Dolan, who had offered Gaspard Ulliel a significant role in his film Just the end of the world in 2016.
On the occasion of the anniversary of his death, Xavier Dolan wanted to pay him a moving and sincere tribute.
-“Today, like every January 19 since your death, like all those to come, is not easy. But the light is magnificent at the moment. The trees are weighed down with snow and are bending over! This is the same light, the same countryside as when I wrote about you, the year you died. As if you were manifesting in the air. That you were impregnating him. So I think of you happily: the cinema conversations, your eloquence, the way you expressed your thoughts. Sens-Dessus Dessous at the Latin Quarter Cinema, where we cried like children… The discovery of Sautet in Lyon with Marina… This Cannes where you consoled me, and this ghostly, elusive photo of you, moreover, where you blurs past Shayne’s eye; Already, you were perhaps escaping us… I don’t have a single bad memory with you. There isn’t a moment that doesn’t bring me warmth when it comes back to me. I’m thinking of you. Always. X” he wrote under several photos of him and the actor on Instagram this Sunday, January 19.
Many supports for the filmmaker
Many of his subscribers have commented on the filmmaker’s publication. “Magnificent Tribute for the Angel Gaspard “, “Your text and your films are so magnificent. We miss Gaspard, he is missed in cinema… he was a sublime and elusive actor…!!!❤️“, “It’s still so difficult to accept even 3 years later ️“, “In the thoughts and hearts of many people today in France. It’s still painful.“, we can read under his photos.