FrameThrower · Actors · Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Trintignant
11 films · 659 frames · top-billed in 10 · 1956–2017
Born 11 December 1930 · Piolenc, Vaucluse, France · died 17 June 2022
Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant was a French actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era. He starred in many classic films of European cinema, and worked with many prominent auteur directors, including Roger Vadim, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, Claude Chabrol, Bernardo Bertolucci, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Michael Haneke.
He made a critical and commercial breakthrough in And God Created Woman (1956), followed by a starmaking romantic turn in A Man and a Woman (1966), and The Great Silence (1968).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 11 films · 659 frames · top-billed in 10 · 1956–2017
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor1969
- Silver Bear for Best Actor1968
- Silver Bear1968
- César Award for Best Actor2013
- European Film Award for Best Actor2012
- Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral
How their films are shot
Measured across 659 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jean-Louis takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 11 films we hold, 52% of their frames are day, 45% natural — the look of the work Jean-Louis takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Happy End
2017 · Georges Laurent
Amour
2012 · Georges
Three Colours: Red
1994 · The Judge
Vivement Dimanche
1983 · Julien Vercel
The Conformist
1970 · Marcello Clerici
Z
1969 · Examining Magistrate
My Night At Maud’s (Ma Nuit Chez Maud)
1969 · Jean-Louis
The Great Silence
1968 · Silence
Un Homme et Une Femme
1966 · Jean-Louis Duroc
And God Created Woman
1956 · Michel Tardieu
Successive Slidings of Pleasure (Glissements progressifs du plaisir)
1974 · The Police Commissioner
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
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