Jean-Louis Trintignant cancer entrust “thinking about suicide” – Gala

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Actor of the movie Happy ending directed by Michael Haneke, Jean-Louis Trintignant has made an astonishing confession to the JDD, claiming to suffer the aging and suicidal thoughts.

The words grave of a man in the twilight of life. Jean-Louis Trintignant is in full campaign promotional for the film Happy End and speaks without restraint to his career as a of his life. The death of his daughter Marie as a wound still open on his future, the actor aged 86 engages with a sincerity that is disarming. Weakened by cancer, he told the JDD testimony in the form of a testament, pointing to the suicide.

For Jean-Louis Trintignant, the future has already the air of combine the past and when our colleagues ask him his projects, the actor has this answer as scathing as hopeless : “a Successful suicide, perhaps ? Aging is a result of problems. The first is that one loses his friends. I have to find fifty who have touched me and are dead”. Lyrics all the more unsettling that the actor embodies in his new film about an old man who wants to end it.

“This character I was immensely touched. I am at the end of my life, like him. I think a lot of suicide, as to him,” says Jean-Louis Trintignant, claiming that director Michael Haneke is ” perhaps the greatest filmmaker “. With his previous film, Love, the austrian artist had allowed the actor to win the César for best actor in 2013.

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Jean-Louis Trintignant

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