France's President Emmanuel Macron paid a heartfelt tribute to French screen legend actor, singer, and filmmaker Jean-Louis Trintignant who died at 91 years old.
The actor's wife, Mariane Hoepfner Trintignant, announced the tragic news to AFP.
"He accompanied our lives through French cinema," said Macron when he was informed of the news during a tech conference in Paris."It's a page that turns on a wonderful artistic talent and voice."
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Trintignant was known for French classics such as "Amour", "Z" and "The Conformist","Three Colors: Red and A Man and a Woman".
The iconic actor appeared in more than 130 films and played numerous stage roles. He was also named Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969 for political thriller Z.
"The most beautiful voice that we've heard in theatre or cinema," Lelouch told French radio on Friday. "He made us a gift of his scars. He was a remarkable man... I owe him everything," added Lelouch, who worked with Trintignant on seven films.
Despite his screen success, Trintignant was known to say that he preferred the theatre. "I could have spent my whole life doing theatre," he said in 2017, adding: "But cinema paid better!"
The legendary actor shot to fame in 1966 playing opposite Anouk Aimée in the double-Oscar winning A Man and a Woman (1966), which won Academy Awards for best screenplay and foreign-language film. In 2019, his final role was a reprisal of the character.
"Trintignant was one of my all-time favourite actors: sexy, pensive, mischievous, capable of deep and searching sadness," tweeted Variety film critic Guy Lodge. "What a body of work. What a face."
His life became a tragedy after losing his daughter Marie who was murdered by rock star Bertrand Cantat in 2003. Images of him crying at his daughter's funeral touched French hearts.
"Inside me, everything is destroyed," he said, and disappeared from cinema for a decade.
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