Vilnius is a beautiful city, but it did not appear in the imaginary of rock until 2003. That year, the capital of Lithuania was the scene of an atrocious event that would end the life of a powerful actress, which some identified with Claude Chabrol’s cinema. Of rebound, as collateral damage, it would liquidate one of the large groups of French rock, Noir Désir.
You may remember. Marie Trintignant, 41, died after a beating paid by her boyfriend, singer Bertrand Cantat, two years younger. Marie was rolling in Vilnius a telephilme about writer Colette, led by her own mother, Nadine Trintignant, married during the sixties with one of the luminaires of French cinema, the great Jean-Louis Trintignant.
The news shook France. Marie embodied there the prototype of free woman, in love with love: she had four children, product of many other relationships. Its sentimental avatars can be shocking to us, but they are understood in the context of an incestuous film industry, where everyone is known. In your last movie, Janis and JohnMarie was directed by a former boyfriend, Samuel Bencherrit, and the cast had her father, Jean-Louis.
Many rugged details are collected in the three chapters of the Netflix series From Rock to Killer: The Cantat case. A documentary swollen in duration, but that revives uncomfortable issues. We see how Bertrand varies its version about what happened that night of 2003. It invokes a fight, but cannot explain the hours after Marie lost the meaning until she called medical services. In the hospital they could only verify that, victim of a cerebral hemorrhage, he had entered into a coma. Evacuated to France, he died on August 1. It was buried in Père Lachaise, the Parisian cemetery where the remains of the vocalist who supposed to inspire Cantat: Jim Morrison.
The matter still burns. In the Netflix series, Marie’s relatives do not participate; Before the cameras, his arguments are defended with fury by singer Lio or Richard Kolinka, the drummer of the band Téléphone, father of Marie’s first son. Naturally, Bertrand does not have valuers: the testimonies of people from the music industry throw balls out and insist on their ignorance of the violent temperament, of the singer’s outbursts of the singer. The absence of those who lived for decades with Cantat, the other members of Noir Désir is striking.
From Rock to Killer: The Cantat case It has the virtue of thoroughly exploring the impact on French society: automatically, many columnists and gatherings prosecuted tragedy as a matter of crazy lovesuggesting that Marie tended to hysterism and was unable to develop lasting relationships. A version that many maintain, despite the most of the dozen long books that crumble Bertrand’s twisted trajectory. And no, it does not strain the repeated romantic portrait of the couple as “the new Romeo and Julieta.”
The cSinged associate He had a strobe horrible. Justice was benevolent with him: an eight -year sentence, which – after his transfer to a French prison – led to probation for “good behavior.” Bertrand reconciled with his wife, the Krisztina Rády cultural programmer, whom he had abandoned when he began his adventure with Marie Trintignat. They settled in Bordeaux, the city where Noir Désir was founded, and Bertrand made music again.
Some say that the leopard never changes its spots. New horror: Kristina hung in early 2010. One of her children discovered the body; Cantat was sleeping. Two subsequent investigations ruled that the singer had nothing to do with suicide. However, in the Netflix documentary, Kristina’s visit is alluded to, with signs of having suffered domestic violence. The Bordeaux Prosecutor’s Office has reopened the Caso Krisztina Rady.