Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant is a actor of Théâtre and Acteur, Réalisateur, author, Scénariste of Cinéma French born the December 11th 1930.

He is the nephew of the racing driver of legend Maurice Trintignant and the father of the actress Marie Trintignant (see the page of homonymy for the complete family).

Biography

In 1930 it is born the December 11th with Piolenc in the Vaucluse to 6 km in the North-West from Orange. Wire of an industrial rich person of the south of the France. Very timid, it wants to become racing driver like his/her uncle Maurice Trintignant, emblematic figure of the automobile sport of the Années 1950 called the " gentleman driver " , victorious of the 24 hours of Mans on a Bugatti in 1954 French and first pilot to gain a Grand Prix the May 22nd 1955 with the Grand Prix of Monaco at the wheel of a Ferrari. It transmits its passion of the automobile Compétition to him.

In 1942, 12 years old, it is discovered a passion for the Poésie of Jacques Prévert which will not leave it amongst other things any more its life with Guillaume Apollinaire and Louis Aragon.

In 1949 19 years old, it is student in Droit to the Faculté of Aix-en-Provence when it assists with the part of Théâtre Miserly the of Molière put in scene by Charles Dullin. This part is a revelation. It gives up its studies and decides to follow the courses of Comédie of Charles Dullin and Tania Balachova to Paris and to try to overcome its deep Timidité.

It wife the actress and Actress Stephan Audran (which will be remariera with the Réalisateur Claude Chabrol in second wedding).

In 1951, it begins with the Théâtre in the Compagnie Raymond Hermantier with the part With each one according to its hunger . It connects with the Comédie of Saint-Etienne or it plays Macbeth of William Shakespeare with Jean Dasté. Then it follows the courses of Réalisateur of the Institut of the high cinematographic studies (IDHEC). (It will carry out its first film later only twenty years with One day filled well in 1972 and the Swimming instructor in 1978 which will be two failures).

In 1956 after some figurations, it makes its beginnings as actor of Cinéma with the film If all the guy of the world of Christian-Jaque and knows the international celebrity at the same time the same year as Brigitte Bardot with mythical film with scandal And God… created the woman Roger Vadim where it plays the young insane husband in love with Juliette, an young woman with the diabolic beauty who thinks only of having fun and to love the men in a community of the village of Saint Tropez traditionally hard with the labor and attached to the moralities. Its link with Brigitte Bardot (bride with Roger Vadim) then made run much ink in the international press people and makes to explode the couple Vadim Bardot.

It disappears completely during its Military service in Germany then with Algiers in Algérie during three long years which will mark it deeply and stop its career during the Guerre of Algeria (1954 with 1962) where it makes very to be reformed without success of this conflict which it cannot support.

Life income civil, it becomes again popular by playing in a masterly way Hamlet of William Shakespeare with the Théâtre and joins again with the cinema in 1959 thanks to Christian Vadim which offers to him a big role in its new sulfurous film the dangerous connections with Gerard Philippe, Jeanne Moreau, Annette Vadim and Boris Vian…

In 1966 it again knows international glory with a man and a woman of Claude Lelouch rewarded for the Palme of gold to the Cannes festival 1966 and Oscar of the best foreign film and Oscar of the best original screenplay 1966.

The same year, he plays in politically committed films against the Fascisme and the Dictature: the Combat in the island of Alain Cavalier and Z of Costa-Gavras with Yves Montand, role for which it receives the Prix of male interpretation to the Cannes festival of 1967.

It connects an impressive career between Cinéma of author, films general public and Théâtre or it often takes roles of anti-hero to the envoûtant Charisme and the sarcastic velvet voice tormented and . It is essential among the largest actors of its generation.

In 1968 it is rewarded for the price of interpretation to the Festival of film of Berlin (Berlinale) for the man who lies of Alain Robbe-Grillet. He marries the Actrice, Scénariste and Réalisatrice Nadine Marquand for which he turns of many films and with which he has three children: a son Vincent Trintignant and two girls: Pauline and Marie Trintignant. The brutal death of Pauline in 1966 plunges the couple in the pain. This episode will be the subject of a film of Nadine Trintignant, Ca arrives only at the others, in which Jean-Louis Trintignant was to play his own part near Catherine Deneuve. He refuses the role, which falls to Marcello Mastroianni.

Marie plays in several films of her mother at the sides of her father and several plays with her father. She becomes the privileged partner of her father.

He follows courses of piloting of all the French flying schools and short a time as professional racing driver. He takes part in several rally S and races in circuits in particular for the team of the Star Racing TEAM on Simca 1000 rally.

In the Years 1980, 50 years old, it is withdrawn in its house of Uzès in the Gard to 40 km in the west of Avignon to live in harmony with nature. He says himself wearied by the cinema and is done rarer on the screens. In the Years 1990, it approaches characters Misanthrope S and Cynique S, walled in their loneliness.

In 1986 Claude Lelouch proposes to him to take again to its role of racing driver in a man and a woman: twenty years already in which it finds Anouk Aimée.

In 1996 with the image of his/her uncle Maurice Trintignant withdrawn of the automobile race in its wine field of Vergèze to 20 km in the south-east of Nimes in the Gard, it launches out in a new adventure by buying the wine field Rouge Garance (in homage to Arletty) of five Hectare S in the Côtes of the Rhone associated with its couple of Claudie friends and Bertrand Cortellini with Saint-Hilaire-in Ozilhan to 20 km of Nimes and Avignon. It produces 20.000 bottles of Côtes of the Rhone name villages AOC. It makes draw the first label of its first vintage 1997 by his friend the draftsman of Cartoon Enki Bilal. Ten years after, its field Rouge Garance is one of the headlights fields among best noted Vallée of the Rhone thanks to the talent of the owners. It repurchases and uses the old barrels of the field Bourguignon of the Romanée-Conti to vinify its wine. “I spend my time in the vines, I take care of the assemblies. ” With Uzès, the Acteur leaves the place to the stockbreeder of Vin and olive-tree S.

In 2003 it reads on scene behind its desk the Poèmes in Lou (love letter of the Poète Guillaume Apollinaire in its liked well Lou) with his/her daughter Marie Trintignant.

In 2005 it presents its spectacle Jean-Louis Trintignant reads Apollinaire created with his Marie daughter in homage for her to the Festival of Avignon.

Quotations

  • " Today, the theater is appropriate to me better than the cinema. There is there a true contact with the public. Often, I speak with the spectators at the exit of the theater. That counts enormously for me. "

  • " There can be only moments of happiness and some can be exceptional. Me, I was never as happy as when I was with Marie. Our relation was single. "

  • " My Marie daughter, I test such a happiness when I see it! It is thus since it is very small. A gift of the sky. It is a little unjust, this passion, but the love comes from us two. We knew each other at the good moment. Moment when I wanted to be father. "

  • " I played poker much, but now I do not want of it any more. Or then with buddies like Jean Ferrat, who is one of my neighbors of countryside. I do not have the profile of the player of poker. It is a play based on spite: one should not seek to gain against gaining, but to overpower the losers. The poker, it is a concentrate of the human reports/ratios: around a table, in one evening, one meets all the range of the feelings there. "

  • " Which is your currency? It is necessary to like! "

Theater

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As actor

from 1955 to 1959

from 1960 to 1969

from 1970 to 1979

from 1980 to 1989

from 1990 to 1999

Since 2000

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