The film world has lost today one of its wonderful singular actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant.

I discovered his talent during my film studies, and not through those films he's maybe most well known for (Et Dieu... créa la femme, Un homme et une femme, Il conformista, Z... and many others), but rather through his repeated collaborations with Alain Robbe-Grillet (Trans-Europ-Express, L'homme qui ment, Glissments progressifs du plaisir...). In one of his later performances he very much impressed me in Michael Haneke's Amour (alongside the as singular and wonderful actress Emmanuelle Riva!).

He impressed in many other films by directors like Ettore Scola, Alain Cavalier, Valerio Zurlini, Claude Lelouch, Krzysztof Kieślowski, André Téchiné, Jacques Audiard, and many others...

Somehow he turned his timidity into an instrument for his acting: which much restraint, but always to the point and convincing. Not an academic actor, but a natural talent. Cinema will miss him.