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Director Emily Atef and producer Xénia Maingot paid tribute to late French actor Gaspard Ulliel on the first of anniversary of his death at a screening in London of his last feature More Than Ever on Thursday evening.
The title was the last feature film production Ulliel worked on before he died in a skiing accident in the French Alps on January 19, 2022 at the age of 37 years old.
The drama stars Vicky Krieps as a woman who retreats to the Norwegian fjords as she comes to terms with a life-threatening respiratory illness. Ulliel co-starred as her devoted husband who struggles to come to terms with her decision to strike off on her own.
“Today is a special screening. To be honest, I wouldn’t have been able to do this event in France today because Gaspard was so immensely loved in France,” Atef told the audience at the French Institute’s Lumière Cinema.
“The French have a really special relationship with their actors which I’ve never seen anywhere else,” she added.
The director suggested that because Ulliel had entered acting at a young age, first appearing on TV and then making his big screen debut at 17 years old in Brotherhood Of The Wolf, the French public felt a special bond with the actor.
Over the course of his career, Ulliel racked up 50 film and TV credits with highlights including Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s A Very Long Engagement 2004), Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent (2014, Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World (2016).
“The French audience saw him grow which is why it was a shock for him to just disappear like that,” she said. “It was an immense joy to meet him and have him act in this film as Vicky Krieps’s partner.”
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