Guillaume Perrodeau 5:39 p.m., June 17, 2022
The French comedian died on Friday June 17 at the age of 91, his family announced to AFP.
He has gone through more than fifty years of cinema and theatre.
And played alongside the greatest French actresses.
Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant died on Friday June 17 at the age of 91.
He had been suffering from cancer since September 2017. Actor with more than 130 roles on the boards and on the big screen, Jean-Louis Trintignant was a huge figure in cinema and theater.
Trintignant and the actresses
Even if since 2002 he had almost completely abandoned the cinema - "an art of canning" according to him - to prefer the theater, it is with the seventh art that Jean-Louis Trintignant made himself known.
In 1956, he exploded on the big screen at the same time as another actress who would become a cult, Brigitte Bardot, in Roger Vadim's "And God… Created Woman".
BB's curves and her sensual game dazzle the planet.
Trintignant, 26, also impresses.
Two destinies linked on the screen which will also be linked in real life, the time of an affair, which will make the headlines of the tabloids.
In 1956, the actress was married to director Roger Vadim.
When we look at the greatest roles of Jean-Louis Trintignant, it is clear that a great actress is never far away.
In 1966, his return to the fore was with "A man and a woman" by Claude Lelouch, where he played alongside Anouk Aimée.
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Three years later, he played Jean-Louis, an engineer, and played opposite Françoise Fabian in "Ma nuit chez Maud" (1969), which would become a classic of the French seventh art.
He also crosses paths with Romy Schneider, for "Le Combat dans l'île" by Alain Cavalier (1962), whom he finds eleven years later in "Le train", then in "Le mouton enrage" (1974) and
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The Banker" (1980).
In 1982, he shared the bill with an actress, still young, who would be consecrated as the most talented of her generation in "Vivement dimanche!"
by François Truffaut: Fanny Ardant.
For "Love" in 2012, he bursts the screen with Emmanuelle Riva, forming this couple whose wife has Alzheimer's.
Marie, an unspeakable loss
Another actress also played a big role in her life: her daughter, Marie Trintignant.
In 2003, they notably played together in Janis and John, by Samuel Benchetrit, just before the actress died under the blows of her companion at the time, Bertrand Cantat.
A loss that marked Jean-Louis Trintignant irrevocably.
"I could have stopped my life at that moment", he often repeated.
In an interview, granted to Catherine Ceylac, in 2008, the actor confided to what point Marie Trintignant had occupied an important role in his life.
More than his daughter, "Marie was my best friend", he explained.
Since 2003, Jean-Louis Trintignant has never really been the same again.
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It is enough to look at his various interviews, to realize how much this drama plunged him into a deep despondency at times, even if he always found a clearing in the middle of the clouds.
"Nevertheless, I have kept an enthusiasm that surprises me even. I have exaltations, wonders that I would perhaps not have the right to have: I believe that this is life and nature which is stronger than us", he confided in 2009 in a documentary dedicated to him.
In 2012, when he came to receive the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival for "Amour", with Emmanuelle Riva and Michael Haneke, he quoted Jacques Prévert: "And if we tried to be happy, would it only to set an example".
A poem in the form of advice for himself, as if to give himself courage for the years he had left to live.