French star Jean-Louis Trininian dies at 91

Jean-Louis Trininian, a thoughtful French actor who was a title in an art classic like man and woman, my night with maud, Conformist, Three colors: red s Love, died. He was 91 years old.

Trininian died on Friday at his home in the Garda region of southern France, his wife Marianne and an agent told Agence France-Presse.

Trininian has received numerous awards during his 60-year career, including the Cannes Award for Best Actor for his 1969 Costa Rican political thriller. z And the 2013 César Award for Michael Haneke LoveIt also won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

With over 130 screen titles and over 50 stage titles to his name, Trintignant was a highly prolific and respected talent who could do everything from Shakespeare to French commercial comedies, Bertolucci, Kislowski and Truffaut favorites and popular novels. Snowflakes – Like when he introduced the voice of a talking brain City of Missing Children (nine hundred ninety-five).

Trintignant became an international star after becoming a racing driver and the favorite of Anouk Aimée, Claude Lelouch. man and woman (1966), which won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and Foreign Film. He and Eime have been called “the best screen couple after William Powell and Mirna Loey”. Guard.

In a 2017 interview, Trininian said in an interview that he acted as an actor. But he decided to play one last role, improving on the character he played against Eime in Lelouch’s 2019 epilogue. man and woman.

Although she was France’s top star for half a century, Trininian was largely out of the public eye, except when she was filming Brigitte Bardot. And God created woman (1956), directed by her husband, Roger Vadim (he played a cheating husband in the film). This novel put Trinity on the front pages of local tabloids, and the film made Bardot an international sex symbol.

His life was followed by tragedy: in 2003, his first child, actress Marie Trininian, was murdered by French rock star Bertrand Cantat while they argued in a hotel room in Lithuania. And in 1970, his second daughter, Pauline, died at the age of 9 months, while the actor and his then-wife Nadine were filming in Rome. (The event was invented in the 1971 film It only applies to others.With Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni.)

Known for his crisply ripped characters and hypnotic voice, which he used to record several popular audio collections of French literature and poetry, Trininant was a humble actor with a superb screen and stage. Still, he never chewed the scenery and didn’t try to appear in the spotlight.

In one of the last interviews he spoke harshly about his profession.

“I was very shy. “I didn’t care if he was famous,” he told a French newspaper. Nice-Matin. “You know, first it’s fun, then nothing. Why do they give us rewards? We’re already well paid. “It’s better to give the Oscars to people who work in jobs that aren’t fun at all.”

Trininian was born on December 11, 1930 in the town of Piolen in the south of France. His father, who fought the resistance during World War II, was an industrialist and local mayor. His uncle Maurice was the first French Formula 1 driver to win the championship, which inspired Trinity to start racing a race car. (The actor picked up his own tricks man and woman And he was part of the French Star Racing team. He suffered a near-fatal accident during a 24-hour Le Mans race in 1980).

After the family moved to Aix-en-Provence, Trininian began acting in his late teens and early twenties, performing works by Molière and Shakespeare. He then studied film directing at the famous IDHEC Film School in Paris. To pay his bills, he did small screen roles and got his first big break in 1956 as one of three men to play the depraved Juliet (Bardot). And God created woman.

Trinidad then disappeared from the scene to fulfill his mandatory military service, which included time in the Algerian war that would mark him forever. But he returned as one of the presenters of Vadim’s adaptation. dangerous allies (1959), starring Gerard Philippe, Jeanne Moreau and Boris Vian.

He made dozens of films over the next decade, including some of the most iconic. man and woman; Allen Rob Grillett a man who lies (1968), which won the Golden Bear in Berlin; Claude Chabrol’s erotic thriller the insects (1968); Oscar Foreign Language Award zIn which he played an idealistic young lawyer; and Eric Romer my night with maud (1969), is considered one of the best French films of the 1960s.

Trintignant began in the 1970s with his best film role playing a tormented murderer. ConformistBernardo Bertolucci’s gripping and brilliant political thriller is set in pre-World War II fascist Italy. The film was immediately hailed as a classic; Triniano argued and Love There were some of the best movies ever made.

In addition to a busy film career, Trintignant has been a regular in Paris, starting with productions from the 1960s. village At the Champs-Elysées Theater. He starred in the works of Jean Giroud, Françoise Sagan, William Gibson and Louis Aragon, and in 2005 won a Molière nomination for the Samuel Benchetr film. at least two.

Towards the end of his life he gave live readings of poems by authors such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Jacques Prevert, Boris Vian and Robert Desnos.

Since the mid-1990s, Trinity has worked less to spend more time in her native southern France, where she has invested in a vineyard, the Rouge Garance estate, which specializes in the award-winning Cotes du Rhone.

However, the end of his career was marked by several important roles. He starred in the film Retired Judge Kern Krzysztof Kieslowski. Three colors: red (1994), which was nominated for three Oscars and turned out to be the director’s last masterpiece. He also starred in Jacques Audiard’s first two films. see how they fall (1994) and homemade hero (1996) and earned a César nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Patrick Chero film. Who you love can ride the train (1998).

But that was his speech at 82 in Haneke Love (2012), which became one of the milestones in his career that brought César to Trinidad. In the role of the husband defending his incompetent wife (Emmanuel Riva), he did an incredible and incredibly moving job that was one of his best.

Trininian told the French weekly about the film. Dimanche’s diary: “The character was extremely excited. Like him, I’m at the end of my life. And like him, I think a lot about suicide. I’ll take whatever parts Haneke needs to bring back later.

In fact, one of Trintignant’s last roles was in Haneke Happy ending, in which he performed most of his scenes from a wheelchair. The stage performance continued until 2018 under the title Trintignant / Milla / Piazzolla Who mixed poetry and music and then joined Aimée for yet another game. The saga of man and woman. inside Les plus belles annees.

“Aging is just a series of problems,” he said in an interview after announcing he had cancer. “But in the end, it was nice to be alive for so long. I got to meet a lot of interesting people.”