In Lithuania making a television movie about Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette), French actress Marie Trintignant died on August 1, after a beating five days before. Her rock singer boyfriend, Bertrand Cantat of the band Noir Désir, has been detained by authorities. Her mother, Nadine Trintignant, a film director and feminist activist, was also in Lithuania, directing the Colette film. Marie Trintignant's father, Jean-Louis Trintignant, is a French movie star. Colette was a French writer whose semi-autobiographical novels tended to focus on female sexuality in a male-dominated world.

• Colette (About Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) | Colette Quotations
• Décès de la comédienne Marie Trintignant - Allocine.com, August 1, 2003 - in French - with images
• Marie Trintignant Obituary - Philipp Blom, The Guardian
• Until Death Do Us Part - Time/Europe
• French actress dies after alleged beating - AP/Boston Globe
• Blows to head killed French star 'battered to death' - Reuters/The Guardian
• Singer in jail as French mourn loss of film star - Sydney Herald
• Marie Trintignant undergoes emergency surgery - Nancy Tartaglione at ScreenDaily.com
• Marie Trintignant at IMDb.com
• Marie Trintignant - filmography (in French)
• Biography: Nadine Trintignant - MSN
• Nadine Trintignant - Allocine.com (in French)