Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimée were they in a relationship?

“As our voices ba da ba da da da da da da / Sing softly ba da ba da da da da da da / Our hearts see it ba da ba da da da da da da / Like a chance / Like a hope“. By reading these few sentences, you certainly have the melody in mind. These notes have become the hymn to the love of a whole generation. It was in the mid-1960s. Claude Lelouch then released his magnificent A man and a woman – broadcast this Friday, May 13 on France 5. Un masterpiece that won him the Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival.

This feature film traces the beginnings of a passionate, tender and flamboyant love between the characters embodied by Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Characters broken – him by the suicide of his wife; her by the accidental death of her husband, stuntman. Together, this cinema technician and this racing driver will relearn how to love. The chemistry between Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant is such that Claude Lelouch will direct two sequels to this film: A man and a woman: twenty years alreadythen The best years of a life in 2019. If they formed a mythical couple on the big screen, what about reality? Did Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant live a romance?

Did Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant have an affair?

If he was already married to Nadine Trintignant, Jean-Louis never excelled in the art of fidelity, having for example succumbed to the charms of Romy Schneider on the set of the film The train. On the other hand, he did not have an affair with Anouk Aimée. Their couple was only fictional. This does not prevent them from being united by an unbreakable bond. “Anouk is someone very important in my lifeand I think I’m a bit important in his…“, he confided to the Sunday newspaper in 2019. Besides, they were seeing each other “very regularly“after the release ofA man and a woman. “Until Jean-Louis moved to Uzès in 1975“, specified Anouk Aimée. A friendship that has never ceased since.

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