In the summer of 2003, Marie Trintignant was admitted to a Vilnius hospital in a coma. The actress was in Lithuania filming a biopic about the writer Colette in a very family-friendly setting: it was directed by her mother, Nadine Trintignant, and also featured Roman Kolinka, her eldest son, and the singer Lio, her best friend. Marie was also staying with her partner at the time, the singer Bertrand Cantat, leader of the band Noir Désir. He was the one who reported that Marie had fallen unconscious. In the hospital, she underwent several operations to try to reverse the coma. The family decided to move Marie Trintignant to France, where she died on August 1, aged just 41.