Curtain down for Jean-Louis Trintignant. The actor, pillar of French cinema, is dead. It was his family who announced his death this Friday, June 17, 2022 to AFP. Many health problems had weakened him over the years, but it was undoubtedly his heart that suffered the most. By joining the sky, he joins especially the one he missed the most in the world: his daughter Marie Trintignant, who had died long before him, in Vilnius in 2003, under the blows of his companion Bertrand Cantat.
Nothing gets me through this phase
The death of Marie Trintignant is a nameless horror. His parents, Jean-Louis and Nadine Trintignant, lived with the greatest pain. The actor agreed to talk about it, with difficulty, when he was invited in December 2018 on the show FREE ENTRANCE on France 5.”It doesn’t healhe confided to Claire Chazal. For fifteen years, it has completely crushed me. I died fifteen years ago, with her. Nothing helps me through this phase. I am very bad. There are many things that make me think of Marie. I’m even a little embarrassed, because sometimes it’s even a little too hot. I had a close relationship with Marie...”
If I had been there that night, she probably wouldn’t have died.
There is only one person who is responsible for the death of Marie Trintignant. Than a person who has been condemned by justice. But Jean-Louis Trintignant had always felt responsible for the disappearance of his daughter, who died so young, at the age of 41. “I was supposed to come find her that night and I didn’t comehe told Catherine Ceylac on the set of the show Tea or coffee. It was a long road trip, four or five days. Maybe it’s my fault: if I had been there that night, she probably wouldn’t have died. This guilt weighs on me a lot because I’m pretty sure I’m right…”
Bertrand Cantat was sentenced to eight years in prison after killing Marie Trintignant. He obtained his parole after four years, in 2007, then his total freedom in 2010.