AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

Priez pour lui.(Notebook)(Marie Trintignant)

New Criterion

| September 01, 2003 | Dalrymple, Theodore | COPYRIGHT 2003 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Seldom does life imitate art, or at least pretensions to art, with such fidelity as in the death of the French actress Marie Trintignant. She died recently of the head injury that she suffered in a Vilnius hotel room, after a quarrel with her latest boyfriend, the rock singer Bertrand Cantat. The post mortem suggests that she received several savage blows to the head.

Trintignant was in Vilnius shooting a film about the life of the writer Colette; Cantat followed her there. Hotel staff heard a lot of noise emerging from their suite late at night, and at 5:30 the following morning Cantat called Trintignant's brother, also staying at the hotel. Trintignant's suite ...

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
La carga de silencio: la lacra de los infiernos domesticos continua...
Magazine article from: Epoca Giner, Ines August 22, 2003 700+ words
...de las mrtires del silencio ha sido una actriz de renombre. Bajo un manto de flores blancas y amarillas y girasoles, Marie Trintignant era despedida para siempre por sus familiares y admiradores. La muerte le sorprendi en la ciudad de Vilna, donde se encontraba...
Singer charged in French film star death.
News wire article from: United Press International August 8, 2003 700+ words
...COMTEX) Rock star Bertrand Cantat has been charged with murder in the death of French actress Marie Trintignant. Cantant, lead singer with Noir Desir, has been held in Lithuania since July 27 when Trintignant, who had been filming a television...
Killer going home to France.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) September 27, 2004 700+ words
FRENCH rock star Bertrand Cantat, sentenced to eight years in jail in Lithuania for murdering his actress girlfriend, is to serve his sentence in France. Cantat, 40, lead singer of Noir Desir, fatally wounded Marie Trintignant, 41, in Vilnius in July last year.
Rocker's 8 yrs for killing star.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) March 30, 2004 700+ words
...for beating to death his movie star lover. Drunken Frenchman Bertrand Cantat - singer with Noir Desir (Black Desire) - repeatedly hit Marie Trintignant in a row in a Lithuanian hotel. Marie, 41, fell into a coma and died after being flown...
Rock star jailed.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) March 29, 2004 700+ words
...sentenced to eight years in prison. The 40-year-old lead singer of French band, Noir Desir, was charged with the manslaughter of actress Marie Trintignant, 41, in a hotel room in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius last July.
World today: Star to stay in jail.(News)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) October 8, 2003 700+ words
...judge ruled yesterday. Bertrand Cantat, the lead singer of popular French band Noir Desir, has been held in Vilnius since July after actress Marie Trintignant was found beaten into a coma. She later died. His lawyer, Virginijus Leonas Papirtis...
Rock star is jailed for killing lover.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) March 30, 2004 700+ words
...one of France's most popular bands, Noir Desir (Black Desire), was convicted of the manslaughter of 41-year-old Marie Trintignant in a hotel room in Lithuania's capital...times. CAPTION(S): Bertrand Cantat Marie Trintignant
Get tough, court told.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) April 20, 2004 700+ words
...The 40-year-old lead singer of one of France's most popular bands, Noir Desir, Cantat was convicted of killing 41-year-old French actress Marie Trintignant in a hotel room in Vilnius. The three-judge panel could have handed Cantat...
For more facts and information, see all results
©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA