Nadine Trintignant

French writer and filmmaker (born 1934)

Nadine Trintignant ( Marquand; born 11 November 1934) is a French filmmaker and novelist. She is known for making films that surround the topic of family and relationships, such as Ça n'arrive qu'aux autres and L'été prochain. Her film Mon amour, mon amour was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival. Trintignant and Corneau lived together for 37 years until his death in 2010. Trintignant has suffered the loss of two of her three children. In 1970, her nine month old daughter Pauline died of crib death,

In her films, Trintignant has focused on family and relationships, often borrowing from her own life. In 1971 she signed the Manifesto of the 343, published in the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur. The article was signed by 343 women who admitted to having had abortions in order to end the ban on abortion and raise awareness of female reproductive rights.

At age 15, Trintignant's first experience with the film industry was as a lab assistant.

Trintignant made her directorial debut with her 1965 short film Fragilité, ton nom est femme. Two years later she wrote and directed Mon amour, mon amour, a dramatic film about a young woman's love affair with an architect and her secret struggle over whether to have an abortion. The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival. Following the death of her nine month old daughter Pauline in 1970, Trintignant wrote and directed Ça n’arrive qu’aux autres, a semi autobiographical film related to her personal tragedy. Trintignant's next film, Défense de savoir, was released in 1973, followed by Le Voyage de noces in 1976. In 1991 Trintignant joined 30 filmmakers to create Contre L'Oubli for Amnesty International. The project consisted of 30 short films, each directed by a different filmmaker paired with a public personality and dedicated to make a plea for human rights, focusing on a specific political prisoner. Trintignant collaborated with her daughter Marie for the segment on José Ramon Garcia Gomez of Mexico. She has since written several books about her personal life: her autobiography J'ai été jeune un jour (2006); a collection of short stories depicting her pain after Marie's death, Un étrange peine (2007); a memoir of her late partner Alain Corneau, Vers d'autres matins (2012); and an homage to her mother, La voilette de ma mère (2014).

Trintignant's 1967 film Mon amour mon amour, which she wrote and directed, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year.