Jean-Louis Trintignant

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Jean-Louis Trintignant, 2007
Portrait of Alain Elorza

Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (born December 11, 1930 in Piolenc , Département Vaucluse ) is a French actor and film director and racing driver . In addition to working at the theater, he took on roles in more than 130 film and television productions from the mid-1950s. With leading roles in films such as A Man and a Woman (1966), Z , Meine Nacht bei Maud (both 1969) or Drei Farben: Rot (1994), he established himself as one of the great stars of French cinema.

Life

childhood and education

Jean-Louis Trintignant grew up as the younger of two sons of a wealthy Provencal industrial family in Pont-Saint-Esprit . His father Raoul Trintignant was the city's mayor and had been on the side of the Resistance during World War II . He was imprisoned in Marseille and did not return to his family until after the war. Trintignant's mother Claire (birth name: Tourtin) was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo in March 1943 . Disappointed about the birth of a second son, Jean-Louis Trintignant raised her up like a girl until she was seven. Trintignant was enthusiastic about poetry at an early age, including the works of Jacques Prévert .

Trintignant spent his school days in Avignon , where he attended high school there. After graduating from high school in 1950, he first enrolled in law studies in Aix-en-Provence , but instead went to Paris , where he began training at the IDHEC film school . Originally with the aim of figuring out how to lead actors, he took an acting class. He then took lessons from Charles Dullin and Tania Balachova. It took Trintignant more than a year to shed his southern French accent, which caused laughter from his fellow students.

Trintignant began a theater career as a youthful hero in classical and modern plays. Small roles initially took him to the Théâtre National Populaire in Paris. In 1951 Trintignant had its stage premiere with the Compagnie Raymond Hermantier in Jean Mogin's Chacun selon sa faim , then as Mortimer in Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart . Shortly afterwards he played the role of Macbeth at the Comédie St. Etienne . In 1953 Trintignant was on tour through the French provinces with the pieces Britannicus and Don Juan and then got his first major role in Paris with Responsabilité limitée by Robert Hossein . This also earned him his first film agent.

Another of Jean-Louis' initial career aspirations was to become a racing driver . His uncle, Maurice Trintignant , won the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1954 . In 1980 Jean-Louis was there himself at the start. He finished seventh overall in the 1981 Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race . In addition, he repeatedly took part in rallycross races in France in the early 1980s .

Career as a film actor

In 1955 he began his career as a film actor with the short film Pechiney by Marcel Ichac , which was followed by the feature film debut in Christian-Jaques TKX does not answer (1956). In The Law of the Road (1956) by Ralph Habib , he can be seen as an opponent of Jean Gabin . Roger Vadim's published in the same year Stripes And God Created Woman , in which he gave the shy-cramped husband of Brigitte Bardot plays made him known in France. Between 1956 and 1959 Trintignant's career was hampered by military service, which he did in Germany, among other places.

Trintignant's international breakthrough as a film actor came in 1966 with A Man and a Woman by his friend, director Claude Lelouch . In the melodrama, which is partly in color, partly in black and white, he and Anouk Aimée played two single parents who find each other despite a complicated past. Lelouch's film received numerous awards, including the main prize at the Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar . From then on Trintignant was free to choose his roles and works like Sergio Corbucci's Spaghetti Western Corpses Pave His Path (1968), in which he drew attention to himself as the silent avenger Silence, followed. However, he did not accept offers from America.

Trintignant at the 65th Cannes Film Festival (2012)

1969 Trintignant was for his portrayal of an inconvenient investigating judge in Costa-Gavras ' critically acclaimed political thriller Z as best actor at the Cannes Film Festival awarded. In the previous year he had already received the actor 's award at the Berlin Film Festival for the part of the elegant and eloquent man in Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Liar (1968) . In the 1970s , Trintignant was one of the most sought-after character actors in Europe. Among other things, it was the first choice for Bernardo Bertolucci's scandalous film The Last Tango in Paris (1972). Trintignant worked with the director on the dialogues, but he said he turned down the male lead after his daughter thought the film was "too lewd". Trintignant's best-known films during this period included The Wild Sheep (1973) with Jean-Pierre Cassel , Romy Schneider and Jane Birkin . Trintignant also tried unsuccessfully to establish himself as a film director with the comedies Une journée bien remplie (1973) and Der Schwimmeister (1979), to which he also contributed the scripts.

In old age Trintignant became more and more picky about his film roles. Among other things, he first had to be convinced by his daughter for the role of the retired judge and bitter misanthrope in Krzysztof Kieślowski's Oscar-nominated trilogy graduation Drei Farben: Rot (1994). From the mid-2000s, Trintignant, who in his own opinion was a better theater actor, withdrew to the country and only took part in stage engagements and readings. After several years of absence from the big screen, the Austrian director Michael Haneke succeeded in winning the actor over as the narrator for the French version of his film The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story (2009) and for the lead role alongside Emmanuelle Riva in Love (2012). The drama about a retired couple of music professors from Paris, whose love is put to the test after the woman has suffered a stroke , won awards including the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for best foreign language film and brought Trintignant again the praise of the specialist critics as well as the European Film Prize and his first César .

On September 23, 2013, Trintignant announced that he would end his acting career with a reading of poems by Boris Vian , Robert Desnos and Jacques Prévert at the beginning of October of the same year at the Theater Anthéa (Antipolis Théâtre d ' Antibes ). “After these two performances, I won't do anything anymore. Neither theater nor cinema. I'll leave the place to the boys, ”said Trintignant. In 2017, however, he returned to the big screen with a leading role in Michael Haneke's Happy End , which earned him another nomination for the European Film Awards .

Private

Jean-Louis Trintignant was married to Colette Dacheville in 1954, who was to embark on a successful acting career under the stage name Stéphane Audran . Still married, Trintignant met while filming And Always Lures Woman (1956) to know the actress Brigitte Bardot , with whom he had a liaison that was widely recognized by the press. After his divorce, Trintignant married the former script girl Nadine Marquand in 1961 . She took his family name and became known as the director Nadine Trintignant . Jean-Louis played under her direction several times. There are three children from the marriage. In 1970 they lost a daughter to sudden infant death syndrome . The surviving children Marie (1962-2003) and Vincent (* 1973) also became actors for their part. While filming with her mother in Vilnius in 2003 , Marie Trintignant was killed in an argument by her drunk friend, the singer Bertrand Cantat .

Filmography

Actor (selection)

Director

  • 1973: Une journée bien remplie ou Neuf meurtres insolites dans une même journée par un seul homme dont ce n'est pas le métier
  • 1979: The swimming master ( Le maître-nageur )

Scripts

  • 1972: The last tango in Paris ( Ultimo tango a Parigi , collaborator on the dialogues)
  • 1973: Une journée bien remplie ou Neuf meurtres insolites dans une même journée par un seul homme dont ce n'est pas le métier
  • 1979: The swimming master ( Le maître-nageur )
  • 1993: L'oeil écarlate

Awards

Motorsport statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1980 GermanyGermany Malardeau Kremer Racing Porsche 935 K3 FranceFrance Xavier Lapeyre FranceFrance Anne-Charlotte Verney failure Gearbox damage

literature

Documentaries

  • Jean-Louis Trintignant. Why i live (OT: Jean-Louis Trintignant. Pourquoi je vis. ) TV documentary, France, 2012, 76:10 min., Book: Luis Paraz, director: Serge Korber, production: arte France, Zeta Productions, Ciné Developpement, film Information from ARD .
    "The otherwise extremely closed Trintignant, trusting his friend here, reveals very personal things for the first time."
  • Jean-Louis Trintignant - elegant joie de vivre. Conversation with video recordings, France, 2012, 43:30 min., Moderation: Vincent Josse, production: arte France, editing: Square , German first broadcast: November 18, 2012 on arte, film information from arte, ( memento from 8 April 2015 in the Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Jean-Louis Trintignant  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d hy: Jean-Louis Trintignant. In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 39/2005 from October 1st, 2005, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 37/2012, in: Munzinger-Archiv .
  2. ↑ Korber, Serge: Jean-Louis Trintignant - Why I Live.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.arte.tv   Documentary, arte , 2012 (4:30 min. Ff.).
  3. ↑ a b Korber, Serge: Jean-Louis Trintignant - Why I live . Documentary, 2012 (11:00 min. Ff.).
  4. ↑ Korber, Serge: Jean-Louis Trintignant - Why I Live . Documentary, 2012 (13:00 min. Ff.).
  5. ↑ a b Korber, Serge: Jean-Louis Trintignant - Why I live . Documentary, 2012 (37:20 min. Ff.).
  6. ↑ Korber, Serge: Jean-Louis Trintignant - Why I Live . Documentary, 2012 (63:30 min. Ff.).
  7. ↑ Cannes press conference (French / English) ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from May 20, 2012 (3:00 min. ff .; accessed on July 16, 2012). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.festival-cannes.fr
  8. ↑ dpa : Jean-Louis Trintignant ends his career. In: Zeit online , September 23, 2013.
    feb / AFP : Shift at 82: Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant is retiring. In: Spiegel Online , September 23, 2013.
    SpOn quotes as follows: “I don't do anything anymore. Neither theater nor cinema. Place for the boys. "
  9. ↑ Korber, Serge: Jean-Louis Trintignant - Why I Live . Documentary, 2012 (16:00 min. Ff.).
  10. ^ Jean-Louis Trintignant . In: World who's who: Europa biographical reference. Routledge , London 2002 (online database).
personal data
SURNAME Trintignant, Jean-Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trintignant, Jean-Louis Xavier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Piolenc , Vaucluse department