“A new story of love and cinema was born in the greatest discretion”.
This is how the magazine
Paris Match
reveals the surprise in its columns, this Tuesday, February 21.
That of the budding romance between American director Tim Burton, 64, and Italian actress Monica Bellucci, 58.
“Love at first sight” in Lyon
The two stars had already met briefly on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival in 2006, without really noticing each other.
It will be necessary to wait for another festival, a few years later, for the magic to work.
According to
Paris Match
, the "love at first sight" would have occurred during their meeting in France, last October, on the occasion of the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon.
The American director had received a prize from the hands of … Monica Bellucci.
That evening, Tim Burton gave a poignant speech that did not go unnoticed.
Faced with the Italian actress, also moved, he declared on stage: “In all my life, I have never felt so much love as here.
Where all is only joy and love of films.
I will never forget this evening.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart”.
In video, Monica Bellucci, return to her filmography in 9 roles of femme fatales
On the front page unveiled by
Paris Match
this Tuesday, February 21, we see Monica Bellucci and Tim Burton, arm in arm, during a nocturnal stroll.
Previously, the actress was married to Vincent Cassel for 14 years.
Together, they have two daughters, Deva in 2004 and Léonie in 2010. The couple separated in 2013 and six years later, the actress fell in love with the French sculptor Nicolas Lefebvre, before breaking up a few months later.
Tim Burton, meanwhile, notably shared his life for 13 years with his favorite actress Helena Bonham Carter, with whom he had two children, Nell and Billy Raymond.
Before being in a relationship with his muse, the director lived alongside the model Lisa Marie from 1993 to 2001. It is now on the arm of the Italian that the American flourishes.
The details and photos of this romance that took everyone by surprise will be revealed in the next issues of
Paris Match
and
Here
, on newsstands respectively Thursday February 23 and Friday February 24.
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