There is always a strange, shocking intensity and unreality in the early death of a beautiful young star - I felt it earlier this year at the untimely loss of the French movie actor Gaspard Ulliel, and perhaps even more so with the sad news about the South African model and actor Charlbi Dean, dead at just 32 years old.
A previous generation probably felt it on hearing about the car crash that killed Françoise Dorleac (sister of Catherine Deneuve) in 1967, just as she was about to hit the big time.
Dean was this year about to make her international breakthrough – a starring role in Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winning satire about the super-rich – Triangle Of Sadness.
