Cinema: disappearance of Jean-Louis Trintignant, a masterful actor

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Jean-Louis Trintignant died at the age of 91 on Friday June 17. He died peacefully of old age, in the morning, at his home in the Gard, surrounded by his relatives, his wife said in a press release. He was a masterful actor who starred in 120 feature films.

Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant died at the age of 91 on Friday June 17.ui who notably starred in A man and a woman. Present in 120 films, he hasn’t stopped shooting. He started very strongly, in 1956, with God created womanby Roger Vadim, alongside Brigitte Bardot. They were married and remained very close. In 1969, the role of the incorruptible judge of Z of Costa Gavras earned him the interpretation prize at Cannes.

On the boards, he will give several times the reply to his daughter, Marie. An accomplice moment which is brutally stopped in 2003, when Marie is killed by her companion, Bertrand Cantat. “It completely destroyed me and I can’t get over it”he said. He returns to the cinema at the age of 85 in Love alongside Emmanuel Riva, who won them a César and a Palme d’Or. Since then, despite his cancer, he performed in musical and poetic shows.


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