Jean-Louis Trintignant stops his career: "cinema is over"

"The cinema is over", announces after half a century of career actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, a monument of French cinema, in an interview broadcast Thursday on the website of Nice-Matin.

The 87-year-old filmmaker, who suffers from prostate cancer, says he refused to shoot in a future film by Bruno Dumont: "It was interesting but I was afraid of not getting there physically ", he reports.

Faced with cancer, "I do not fight, I let it go. I found a doctor from Marseille who tries a new thing, I do not do chemo, even if I was ready, "adds the one who has been haunted since 2003 by the death of his daughter Marie under the blows of his companion, singer Bertrand Cantat.

Interviewed for the release of a recording of poetry readings (Prévert, Vian, Apollinaire …) on a music by Astor Piazzolla performed by accordionist Daniel Mille, the actor living near Uzès (Gard ) also states that it was "not made for a public profession". "I was extremely shy, and the notoriety never interested me, you know, it's fun the first time, but after all at all, why are we given rewards, we're already well paid, we'd better give Oscars to people who do not funny trades. "