Because she was bored at school, Nadine Trintignant took her brother’s advice: at 15, she became a laboratory intern to learn how to edit. Then she directed television reports and a first feature film. She always liked to write, despite the huge spelling mistakes in her scripts (laughs)!
On the set of the film "Mon amour, mon amour" that he plays, Jean-Louis TRINTIGNANT films his wife Nadine who directs the shots. I wanted to make this little movie like an open love letter," he said. "I watched a woman for whom I have a lot of tenderness, my wife..."
"I am willing to be a feminist if it is understood that I love men, I am willing to be a vegetarian if I am allowed to eat meat..." says Nadine Trintignant. Then she explains how the profession of filmmaker is a profession where one is terribly judged, man or woman.
On images of the shooting of "it only happens to others", Franche Roche recalls that Nadine Trintignant was inspired by her own story for the subject of this film, the story of a couple whose baby dies suddenly. "Isn’t it very difficult to tell this story? After a silence, the director answers "No if I do". She explains not knowing how to talk about her emotions, she prefers to transcribe them by images.
Following a question from a viewer, Nadine Trintignant talks about her relationship with actors. For the director, the actors are children ("it’s still a strange idea to be an actor"). "Besides they say I’ll play". She remembers that her little daughter, when she heard her father say when he went to the theatre "I’m going to play", she said: "you’re lucky, I go to school"!
Catherine Ceylac asks if Alain Corneau (second husband of Nadine Trintignant) has ever taken umbrage at the great complicity between Nadine and her daughter Marie. The filmmaker explains that she had warned him that his children would always come first, and that he loved him in this way. Marie Trintignant agrees: children are "essential" for parents.
An archival review of the fight for the legalization of abortion in France and an interview with filmmaker Nadine TRINTIGNANT, who signed the Manifesto of 343 French women claiming to have aborted, published in 1971 in the magazine "Le Nouvel Observateur".
Interview with Nadine MARQUES or Nadine TRINTIGNANT: under what name will she sign her film "Mon amour, mon amour"? Is she having trouble running her husband Jean-Louis Trintignant? On the contrary, she explains how their complicity makes things easier for her. The journalist talks about the small budget of this film, which makes the director laugh who finds that she has the means she needs!
Cross-interviews of Nadine and Jean-Louis TRINTIGNANT, on the theme of money and the bad conscience it provides. Nadine speaks of all that cinema brings to her ("it is a formidable equivocation"), of her absence of shame to have everything she needs materially (she quotes Visconti who says he is the richest Marxist in Italy). In a burst of laughter, she admits that the one who really makes money is her husband! Jean-Louis TRINTIGNANT laughs at Nadine’s words: "she will tell you that she has no bad conscience, that’s not true".
In Paris, a rally to protest against violence against women was organized on the initiative of Nadine Trintignant. More than 400 people were present and among them many personalities from the entertainment world. Images of the rally alternate with interviews with Nadine TRINTIGNANT, Thierry LHERMITTE and Patrice LECONTE.