On August 1, 2003, the actress Marie Trintignant succumbed to the blows of Bertrand Cantat. Aged 41, the actress had been severely beaten four days earlier for her companion, while they were in a hotel room in Vilnius in Lithuania, where the TV film Colette, a free woman was being filmed. An argument breaks out between the couple after Marie Trintignant receives a text message from her husband Samuel Benchetrit, from whom she is separated. The singer hits her several times, until Marie Trintignant loses consciousness and falls to the ground. Bertrand Cantat
don’t call for help, and leaves her to die in her bed. A few hours later, he called Vincent, Marie Trintignant’s brother, who, upon arriving on the scene, did not understand the seriousness of the situation in which his sister found herself.
Admitted far too late to Vilnius University Hospital in a deep coma, Marie Trintignant is operated on twice, in the vain hope of decompressing his brain. Unfortunately, the young woman is declared brain dead on July 31, 2003, following cerebral edema caused by the lesions, and his body was repatriated to France. Neurologist Stéphane Delajoux attempts a “last chance” operation, but fails. The daughter of Nadine and Jean-Louis Trintignant died on August 1, 2003 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, and leaves behind a ten-year-old child, Paul Cluzetwhich she had with the actor François Cluzet.
Invited this Saturday February 10, 2024 from Papotin meetings on France 2, François Cluzet will evoke with emotion the memory of the mother of her eldest sonwith whom he shared a beautiful love story in the late 80s and until the mid 90s: “First of all, she was an actress, therefore a partner. What I really liked about her was her fragility, her vulnerability, the fact that she was still almost a child in her head, and that she was a fan of justice. She had suffered, too. She had lost her sister. She dreamed of a world without conflicts. Then finally, fate threw him into hostile arms. I have a son with her. Paul is the son I had with Marie Trintignant. It is a chance“ declared the Intouchables actor, very moved by the performance given to him by the apprentice journalist.
“I will never forgive” “that bastard from Cantat”
François Cluzet has regularly taken a position in recent years on the media return of Bertrand Cantat, after the prison sentence he received. In 2015, interviewed by Catherine Ceylac in Tea or coffeehe declared that he “would never forgive” Bertrand Cantat for having taken away a mother from his son. He then revealed that this assassination had led him to invest in helping women victims of domestic violence. In October 2017, asked about the film Janis and Johnsonin which he responds to Marie Trintignant, he violently insulted her assassin: “Marie died right after, murdered by that bastard… Cantat”. Very harsh words, which quickly went viral, that he had spoken on the set ofWe are not in bedbut which had earned François Cluzet praise from feminist associations, the political class and many public figures.