The 5 best roles of Gaspar Ulliel

On January 19, 2022, French actor Gaspard Ulliel died at the Grenoble University Hospital. He recently suffered a severe head injury while skiing at an Alpine ski resort. Ulliel underwent two complicated operations, but medicine was powerless. The actor was only 37 years old. Let's remember his best roles.

In the drama by French director Andre Teschin, 19-year-old Gaspard Ulliel plays a rough, difficult teenager. The events unfold in the first months of the Second World War. Gaspard's hero rescues a teacher and her two children during a German bombing of a refugee convoy and hides them in the forest.

The film earned the actor a second nomination for the national Cesar Award in the category "Most Promising Actor". He got the first one for his role in "Kiss Whoever You Want", a year earlier, when he was only 18 years old.

This film made Ulliel famous. In it, he played the cruel and charismatic killer Hannibal Lecter in his childhood and youth. "Hannibal: The Ascent" reveals the mystery of a maniac who received severe psychological trauma in childhood. This is the first project of a French actor shot in English.

There were plenty of people willing to play the role of young Hannibal. Hugh Dancy, Hayden Christensen, Macaulay Culkin, Dominic Cooper, Rupert Friend, Tom Sturridge and Tom Payne participated in the selection along with Gaspard Ulliel. But the director of the film Peter Webber chose the young Frenchman and never regretted it.

The story of the great fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, who ascended to the Olympus of world fashion in the 60s. Saint Laurent is gripped by contradictions – his head is spinning with success, and his soul is torn by despair. The film shows well the first years of the fashion master, filled with parties and bouts of inspiration, disappointment and hopes.

Critics believe that Gaspard Ulliel perfectly coped with his task and was very convincing in the role of Saint Laurent. By the way, the drawings shown in the film and allegedly made by the couturier were actually created by a young French actor.

This is the story of a talented person who decided to become a writer as a child. He purposefully went to his goal and got what he wanted. But it turned out that fame, recognition and money are not the most important thing. Stricken by a serious illness, the venerable writer returns to his hometown to reunite with his loved ones, whom he once left.

The film, shot by cinematographers from Canada and France, was the second in Ulliel's career, where Vincent Cassel became his partner on the set. The actors not only starred together, but also often crossed paths in everyday life. Gaspard dated Vincent's sister Cecile Cassel for two years.

The popular young writer Bertrand and the seductive Eva are locked in the same house because of a blizzard. A man falls passionately in love, but he can't even imagine what a dangerous game is being tied around him. He is writing a novel, the heroine of which is Eva and is ready to do anything to get a spectacular ending.

The erotic thriller "Eve" is based on the novel of the same name by James Hadley Chase, published in 1946. Before the 2018 film adaptation, the film "The Night" was shot by Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau in the main roles. So, we can say that this is already a classic.