Chance of the calendar, the last two films of Gaspard Ulliel were released in cinemas, this Wednesday, November 16. In More Than Ever, Emily Atef’s film tinged with a very particular melancholy, he embodies a husband who refuses to accept the imminent death of his wife, suffering from an incurable degenerative disease and who does not wish to undergo the major surgery that could save her. Gaspard Ulliel is life, Vicky Krieps wishes to die with dignity, without giving in to the wishes of those close to her who want her alive at all costs. On the other side of the cinematographic spectrum, he lends his voice to Ken in the short animated sequences of Coma, the latest very personal film by Bertrand Bonello, his mentor, who will direct it as Yves Saint Laurent in the antibiotic pic he dedicated to the couturier in 2014 and available for replay on Arte.tv until November 22. This a film about creation, of course, but also about money, love and death, exploded the codes of the biopic, with its fragmented narration or its memorable split-screen parade scene. Bonello made Saint Laurent and his creative madness a troubled object of fantasy, both charismatic and decadent in the heart of the Parisian nightlife, brilliant and monstrous in his fashion house with military discipline. The couturier’s atypical phrasing gave way here to the mysterious gaze of Gaspard Ulliel and his poses of a Greek statue that eclipsed everything else. The same year will be released another biopic on Yves Saint Laurent, wiser than that of Bonello, by Jalil Lespert, with Pierre Niney in the role of the couturier. They will both be nominated for the César for best actor for this role but it is Niney who will win the statuette.
Leave a comment