The death of Marie Trintignant in 2003 upset the world of cinema and shook the balance of all those close to her, including her four boys: Roman, Paul, Léon and Jules. Losing such a young parent is not in the logic of things and was a trauma for his children. François Cluzet had returned to his disappearance and the consequence that it had caused in the life of his offspring. Father of his son Paul, born in 1993, François Cluzet said on the airwaves ofEuropean 1 in 2017 that the period was very disturbing for their boy: “Paul did not fully understand what was happening to him at the time,” he said before talking about his other half-brothers. “What was terrible was that the kids were all brought up together and the fathers had to get their own. For them, this sibling who was cut into pieces was a terrible lack of reference points.” did he declare.
François Cluzet shared the life of Marie Trintignant for four years. The two actors, tired of Parisian life, had taken up residence in the south of France for more tranquility. Despite their separation, the exes had remained on very good terms, as evidenced by the magnificent portrait that the hero of Do not tell anyone from the actress:Marie was not only my wife, the mother of one of our children, but also an exceptional woman endowed with an incredible sensitivity who had a fantastic fantasy. It was a very great loss for those who loved him“.
Marie Trintignant breathed her last on August 1, 2003 at the age of 41 at the hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine. A few days earlier, she was in a hotel room in Vilnius with Bertrand Cantat when an argument broke out. The singer struck her several violent blows, leaving her lifeless. Supported late by the emergency services, Marie Trintignant died a few hours after a final operation. A sad end that no one has forgotten nearly twenty years later…