Alain Delon “upset” pays tribute to a “brother”

The world of cinema is in mourning. Friday June 17, 2022, the family of Jean-Louis Trintignant announced his death, “peacefully, old agethis morning, at his home in the Gard, surrounded by his loved ones”, said his wife Marianne Hoepfner, whom he married after being married to Nadine Trintignant. Suffering from prostate cancer, the actor has forever marked the world of the seventh art for his iconic roles, as in And God created the woman by Roger Vadim, alongside Brigitte Bardot, in Z of Costa-Gavras, in The train with Romy Schneider, and of course in A man and a woman by Claude Lelouch, where he played Jean-Louis Duroc, a role repeated in The Best Years of a Life in 2019, still with his partner, Anouk Aimée.

So many outstanding roles that have allowed him to become one of the most popular French actors alongside other stars of the genre. Like his friend Alain Delon, with whom he shared the movie poster Cop Story by Jacques Deray, in 1975. Discreet since his health problems, the actor wanted to express himself to share his grief after the announcement of the death of Jean-Louis Trintignant. “After Belmondo, another brother leaving and I am upset“thus confided Alain Delon to AFP, who said to himself “very unhappy” after the disappearance of Jean-Paul Belmondo on September 6, 2021, at the age of 88. “He was a part of me, of my personal and professional life”he said, after having shared the poster several times with him.

The drama of Jean-Louis Trintignant

If Jean-Louis Trintignant has forever marked French cinema, he was also known for having a fast life, as a director but also a rally driver, a passion he shared with his third wife Marianne Hoepfner , herself a pilot. A rich existence, also punctuated by intimate dramas, such as the death of his daughter Pauline in 1970, but also that of his daughter Marie, on August 1, 2003, after being beaten by her companion Bertrand Cantat at the age of 41 . By his own admission, Jean-Louis Trintignant never recovered from his death. “It doesn’t heal”he confided in 2018, and to specify: “For fifteen years, it has completely brought me down. I died fifteen years ago with it.” “Completely destroyed” by this drama, the actor has never hidden that he has never recovered from it, wanting however to be a philosopher: “I’m getting worse and worse. But at the same time, we are made of our happiness and our dramas.”