Jean-Louis Trintignant: French new wave legend who became a global star
msn.comFrench new wave cinema and burst onto the international scene in the 1966 film Un Homme et Une Femme (A Man and a Woman). He played a racing driver who found new love with a widow, played by Anouk Aimee, following the suicide of his wife.
Their sensitive performances, alongside director Claude Lelouch’s visually stunning imagery and Francis Lai’s sentimental music, helped it to win two Oscars and the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or.
But Trintignant insisted he preferred his hairpin racing turns in Monte Carlo to the love scenes with Aimee, which he found embarrassing because she was a friend of his second wife, director Nadine Marquand.
Ten years earlier, Trintignant’s career in France had taken off with Et Dieu. . . Crea la Femme (And God Created Woman) when he took the role of the uncool Michel, who beats his brother, in the lush surroundings of Saint-Tropez, to the hand in marriage of Brigitte Bardot’s free-spirited young woman but finds she continues to bestow her favours on other men.
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