On August 1, 2003, actress Marie Trintignant died after being beaten by Bertrand Cantat. Aged 41, the actress had been severely beaten four days earlier for her companion, while they were in a hotel room in Vilnius in Lithuania, where the TV film Colette, a free woman was being filmed. An argument breaks out between the couple after Marie Trintignant receives a text message from her husband Samuel Benchetrit, from whom she is separated. The singer hits her several times, until Marie Trintignant loses consciousness and falls to the ground. Bertrand Cantat does not call for help, and leaves her to die in her bed. A few hours later, he called Vincent, Marie Trintignant’s brother, who, upon arriving on the scene, did not understand the seriousness of the situation in which his sister found herself.
Admitted far too late to Vilnius University Hospital in a deep coma, Marie Trintignant was operated on twice, in the vain hope of decompressing her brain. Unfortunately, the young woman was declared brain dead on July 31, 2003, following cerebral edema caused by the lesions, and her body was repatriated to France. Neurologist Stéphane Delajoux attempts a “last chance” operation, but fails. The daughter of Nadine and Jean-Louis Trintignant died on August 1, 2003 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, and leaves behind a ten-year-old child, Paul Cluzet, whom she had with the actor François Cluzet.
Guest this Saturday, February 10, 2024 of the Rencontres du Papotin on France 2, François Cluzet will evoke with emotion the memory of the mother of his eldest son, with whom he shared a beautiful love story at the end of the 80s and until in the mid-90s: “First of all, she was an actress, therefore a partner. What I really liked about her was her fragility, her vulnerability, the fact that she was still almost a child in her head, and that she was a fan of justice. She had suffered, too. She had lost her sister. She dreamed of a world without conflicts. Then finally, destiny put her in hostile arms. I a son with her. Paul is the son I had with Marie Trintignant. It’s a chance” declared the Intouchables actor, very moved by the performance the apprentice journalist gave him.
“I will never forgive” “that bastard from Cantat”
François Cluzet has regularly taken a position in recent years on the media return of Bertrand Cantat, after the prison sentence he received. In 2015, interviewed by Catherine Ceylac in Thé ou Café, he declared that he “would never forgive” Bertrand Cantat for having taken away his son’s mother. He then revealed that this assassination had led him to invest in helping women victims of domestic violence. In October 2017, questioned about the film Janis and Johnson, in which he starred opposite Marie Trintignant, he violently insulted his assassin: “Marie died right after, murdered by that bastard… de Cantat”. Very harsh words, which quickly went viral, which he had uttered on the set of We are not lying, but which had earned François Cluzet the praise of feminist associations, the political class and numerous public figures. .
2024-02-10 16:27:45
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