In this summer 2003, Marie Trintignant, 41, is happy. Her mother Nadine, director, gave her the beautiful role in the TV movie Colettewhich will be shot in Vilnius, in Lithuania. Marie needs air by spending two months far from Bertrand Cantat, her lover, whom she met after her break with Samuel Benchetrit. It is claimed that it goes easily from one man to another; It’s true, but she never cheated on anyone. It stops relations net. She does not want a hindrance. Cantat and she is an adventure of barely a year old. He wears an image of Rockstar, singer of the Group Noir Désir, dark but talented. With him, Marie sometimes has the feeling of dancing on the edge of the abyss, but it suits him well, she who loves people with flaws; This does not prevent him from laughing, especially with his children, born from four different fathers, children of art and love: novel, Paul, Léon and Jules.
On July 26, Nadine, without knowing it, captured the latest images of Marie, corseted, Emperrucked, in the role of the sulphurous woman of letters. To the innate talent of Marie is added this way of moving, so atypical, so feline. The Trintignant, Jean-Louis, Nadine and Marie, were born on the film sets. From the age of 4, alongside her father, Marie found herself under the spotlight. Since then, there have been dozens of films and five nominations at César.
Cantat is devoured by jealousy, as he feels excluded from the family of cinema and that of the Trintignant
Something, however, blurs the eyes and the mind of Mary. It seems concerned. Cantat joined, to everyone’s surprise, the filming team and its invasive presence was desired by anyone. Marie is increasingly nervous. There is a party in the evening, but very quickly, the two lovers win their hotel room in Domina Plaza de Vilnius. Cantat, who searched Marie’s phone, is surprised by an SMS signed Samuel Benchetrit concerning the promotion of Janis and Johnconcluded from one: “I kiss you my little Janis. »» He is devoured by jealousy, as he feels excluded from the family of cinema and that of the Trintignant.
The tone rises and the blows leave. Cantat, 1.89 m, rushes on Marie, 1.66 m and about fifty kilos. In his paranoia, he is convinced that the film Colette is done against him. So he strikes, strikes again. He will claim to have brought only large slaps that crushed Mary’s nose, torn off her optic nerves and led to cerebral edema. The autopsy will reveal 19 strokes on the body and face of Mary, from which we no longer even distinguish eyes. Cantat ended up wearing it on her bed without calling for help.
On the morning of July 27, Marie will be admitted to the Vilnius University Hospital, in a deep coma. Surgeons operate it twice to decompress the brain. In vain. She was repatriated to France on July 31 in a state of brain death. A last chance operation is tempted by the neurosurgeon Stéphane Delajoux. In vain, always. She died the next day, August 1. We greet you Marie.
