Valentin Montand was only two years old when his famous dad died. On November 9, 1991, Yves Montand was struck down by a heart attack at just 70 years old. A tragedy for his last partner and for their only son, born almost three years previously. “That’s all the difficulty I have with my father. Images, a lot, but no memory of him“confided the young man in the columns of Nice-Matin.
“I always wonder if I invented these images from photos I saw, or if I really experienced what I have in mind. I think, on reflection, that it is more difficult to bear an absence than to bear the mourning itself.added Valentin Livi, who prefers to use his father’s real surname rather than his cinema pseudonym. If he grew up without a father,
he wants to respect her wishes.
He made his passion his job
“A phrase he said to a journalist the day I was born stuck with me; he wanted me to become ‘a good man’. I try to respect that, to be as honest as possible”he confided. For many years, Valentin Montand has lived in Montpellier with his partner and their daughter, Margot. This is where the couple founded a video game schoolIAD–3D. Today, he is its president and one of the trainers.
He actually takes care “teaching games and level design”. “I followed training in a school dedicated to 3D, then I was hired at The Game Bakers on the game Furi, where I learned a lot of things directly in the field”writes the son of Yves Montand on the website of his establishment. Thanks to this school, he wanted “transmit this knowledge to those who are not in school”.
Valentin Montand: “I have to represent my father”
And for Yves Montand’s son, there is no question of talking about his family within his school. “No, never. Because it distorts people’s approach. It’s unpleasant to have people influenced by that because it prevents us from having a frank conversation. Afterwards, it’s not a secret”recognized the young business leader to Midi Libre. And if he doesn’t really know it, Valentin Montand looks a lot like her famous dad.
“I was always told that my father worked a lot, so I try to work a lot. I try to be as honest as he would have liked me to be,” he confided again. If he didn’t know his dad, he can count on his mother to tell him their fondest memories. “She made me meet my father’s friends: Costa Gavras, Yvan Levaï, Bernard Kouchner… She made me listen to and see everything…,
he said with emotion. Today, it is a duty to talk about him. As a son, I must represent my father.”
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