A new story of love and cinema was born in the greatest discretion, four months ago. An idyll that brings a certain Tim Burton closer to a certain Monica Bellucci… Paris Match tells you everything in its next edition.
They briefly met on the steps of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes in 2006, but it was only sixteen years later, behind the scenes of another festival, that the filmmaker and the actress got closer. She had been single since breaking up with artist Nicolas Lefebvre in 2019. He had been separated from the mother of his children, Helena Bonham Carter, since 2014…
It is in the greatest discretion that Tim Burton and Monica Bellucci discovered each other, never to leave each other once more. Over the past four months, the 64-year-old American and the 58-year-old Italian have gotten to know each other out of sight, before their romance is finally revealed. A romance that dates back to their meeting in France, last October, on the occasion of the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon.
During this 14th edition, surrounded by Irène Jacob, president of the Lumière Institute, Imany and Alice Taglioni, the director “Beetlejuice”, “Batman” or even “Edward Scissorhands” received a special prize from the hands of… Monica Bellucci, then radiant in her purple jumpsuit. On stage, Tim Burton then wiped away a small tear.
Irène Jacob, Monica Bellucci, Tim Burton, Imany, Alice Taglioni – Tim Burton received the Lumière 2022 prize during the 14th Edition of the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon. October 21, 2022
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Two seasoned but available hearts
It has been three years since the essential interpreter of Callas and Cleopatra had not appeared on the arm of a man. Before being charmed by the American filmmaker, Monica Bellucci was in a relationship with the contemporary artist Nicolas Lefebvre. A romance born in 2017, four years following the end of her marriage with Vincent Cassel, the father of her daughters Deva and Léonie (18 and 12 years old).
For his part, Tim Burton had not appeared alongside a woman since 2014 and the end of his relationship with British actress Helena Bonham Carter, the mother of Billy and Nell, his children aged 19 and 15. Before this family life, the filmmaker had shared the life of the artist Lena Gieseke, then the model Lisa Marie.
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