Sandrelli, me and Trintignant friends for life

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 17 - "How much we loved each other", Stefania Sandrelli told ANSA remembering Jean-Louis Trintignant, who died today at the age of 91.

"Together we made that film, IlConformista, loved by cinephiles all over the world, still today one of the most beautiful Italian films. It was 1970, I was just over the age of, I remember moments of great joy with Bernardo Bertolucci and him off the set. . He made fun of me for my big shoulders, he thought they were for swimming because I was born in Viareggio, instead they were for the so much dance I had done as a girl, it was a continuous teasing and everyone laughing with him ", adds Sandrelli.

In today's sad news a certainty: "on June 25 in Bologna in Piazza Maggiore for Il CinemaRitrovato we will pay a beautiful tribute to him, it was already foreseen of course,

    "After that film - continues Sandrelli - we remained very friends, we felt, we spent good days together and always when I happened to be in Paris I went to see him. Except the last time, it was 2018, I went for the homage dedicated to me by the Cinematheque Francaise and he was at the theater, but we were unable to meet and he was already very ill. "

   Sandrelli remembers how he never recovered from Marie's tragedy.

"He loved his daughter very much, I remember beautiful weekends in the countryside near Paris with all of them, he was happy, he felt loved, he felt protected by this whole beautiful family and Marie was the most loved. When he died from the bottles suffered by his companion Bertrand Cantat I often called his home , trying to be comforting. I was talking to Nadine, Marie's mother, and his ex-wife.

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