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Christian Gasc, who won the trophy for “Ridiculous” and “Le Bossu” in particular, was found dead at his home on Tuesday. He was 76 years old.
Christian Gasc here during the presentation of his fourth César in 2013 for “Farewell to the queen”.
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He was one of the great costume designers of French cinema. having worked on about fifty films. He had received three consecutive Césars for “Madame Butterfly” by Frédéric Mitterrand in 1996, “Ridicule” by Patrice Leconte in 1997 and “The Hunchback” by Philippe de Broca in 1998. He received this award one last time in 2013 for “Les farewell to the queen ”by Benoît Jacquot. He was discovered lifeless at his Paris home on Tuesday evening, according to AFP. He was 76 years old.
Born in Dunes in Tarn-et-Garonne in a modest family, he was brought up by a mechanic father and a seamstress mother who will give him a taste for cinema from an early age. At 19, he moved to Paris, where he met Liliane de Kermadec, who offered him to work on the costumes for his film Aloïse (1975), played by Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig.
Costume designer on Godard’s “Passion”
From then on, he will have a series of collaborations with star directors (Jeanne Moreau for “Lumière”, François Truffaut for “La Chambre verte”, Jean-Luc Godard for Passion) and others less known. He will be just as prolific in the theater, with around fifty collaborations. In 2003, he received the Molière costume designer for Oscar Wilde’s “Lady Windermere Fan”.
(AFP)