On August 1, 2003, the actress Marie Trintignant tragically disappeared following the violence suffered by her companion at the time, the singer of Noir Désir, Bertrand Cantat. The latter will eventually be sentenced to eight years in prison.
On January 16, 2022, his mother Nadine Trintignant agreed to return to this drama in the columns of Télé Staron the occasion of the broadcast of his documentary entitled Marie Trintignant, your broken dreams. About her daughter, she said: “Once the take was over (on the set of the film Colette, editor’s note), [she] went to her caravan and joined her killer there (…) He was like all those people who want have a hold and begin by distancing their victim from his friends and then from his family. At the end of the day, after the shooting, I no longer saw Marie. It was the first time that this had happened to me. It was clear that it was was her killer who wanted to see her give up everything,” she said and added, “The day she was killed, she arrived in the morning very happy and told me, ‘It’s settled’ .
The actress now rests in peace in the 45th division of the Père-Lachaise cemetery. His adoptive father, Alain Corneau was buried alongside him on September 4, 2010. Their grave bears the following epitaph: “Peace, peace, they are not dead, they are not asleep, they have woken up from the dream of life “, a quote from the poet Percy Shelley.
On June 17, 2022, his father, actor Jean-Louis Trintignant died at the age of 91. He now rests in the Pont de Justice cemetery in Nîmes, several hundred kilometers from his daughter. Why isn’t he resting next to her?
In Femmes Actuelle, journalist Laurent Del Bono, author of the book Jean-Louis Trintignant, a family story, answered the question. “When Marie died, he would have liked her to be buried in Provence, where her family is from. Nadine preferred her to be buried in Paris so that she could go and pray at her daughter’s grave,” he said. – he explained and clarified: “Jean-Louis Trintignant is very attached to his roots and considers himself a provincial in Paris, a city he never really liked. He returned there as soon as he could and is buried a few kilometers from where he was born”.
Planet invites you to discover the tomb of the talented actress who left too soon.
