Jean-Louis Trintignant: when was his last appearance in the cinema

One of the greatest French actors is gone … At 91, Jean-Louis Trintignant died of old age on Friday June 17, 2022. During his career, the actor had acted in more than 120 films. The fans had been able to see it in particular in And God created the woman, The crime, A man and a womanbut also Watch the men fall. Affected by cancer in 2017, the ex-husband of Nadine Trintignant had continued to work. Two years after playing in happy endingin which he replied to Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant played one last time in a film by his longtime friend Claude Lelouche. In 2019, the actor headlined the film The best years of a life. In it, he played an octogenarian living in a retirement home, who cultivates nostalgic memories and dreams of his most beautiful love story, with Anne (played by Anouk Aimée), met 52 years earlier.

On May 13, 2019, Jean-Louis Trintignant confided how much he enjoyed playing in this film, a sequel toA man and a woman. In an interview with the site Senior Newshe revealed:I experienced this new film a bit like a dream… I let myself be guided by Claude. A very pleasant dream! There are of course, in my character and in this film, a lot of things that are close to me… that are mine (…) I would go to the end of the world with Claude. With him, I offer something else. He is so invigorating, so inventive! I have never met a director with whom I have such a bond…“With emotion, the actor had added:”I don’t really want to shoot anymore. If this movie is my last, I’ll be fine.“

Claude Lelouch: “He made any story possible”

A few hours after learning of the death of Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claude Lelouch indulged in a few confidences in the columns of the Sunday newspaper. “It’s awful. With his departure, a whole section of my life collapsed. Jean-Louis is the first actor who said yes to me, he put me on track (…) I just called Anouk Aimée, she too overwhelmed by sadness, we consoled ourselves together“, he revealed. Upset, the director added: “A Man and a Woman remains Jean-Louis’ biggest success, and The Most Beautiful Years of a Life the last feature film he shot. I really feel that I had the chance to be an important witness to his talent, and I took advantage of it. He was so real, he made any story possible. French cinema does not realize how enormous it was.“

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