In 2006 they met, albeit briefly, on the steps of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, but it was in October 2022, 16 years after they first met, that Monica Bellucci and Tim Burton reunited and were no longer apart. According to an exclusive report by Paris Match magazine, which surprised them as they walked arm in arm through the streets of Paris, the two have been a couple since they met at the 14th Lumière Film Festival held annually in the French city of Lyon. And it so happens that the person responsible for presenting the award to Burton was exactly Monica Bellucci.
The 58-year-old Italian actress has been single since her relationship with French gallery owner Nicolas Lefebvre ended in 2019 after two years together. “We get along really well and this man has taught me a lot, he’s a person of true artistic sensibility, but our journey together now continues on a different track, that of a lifelong friendship,” the actress told the magazine. Italian F. Lefebvre was Bellucci’s first known partner after her marriage to French actor Vincent Cassel, to whom she was married for 14 years from 1999 to 2013, forming one of the most powerful couples in European cinema and the global star system. Cassel and Bellucci had two daughters, Deva and Léonie Cassel. When she split from Cassel, the Italian diva told Vanity Fair magazine that she’s always had a partner by her side and that the break has been good for her to focus on herself: “I want to convey that message, too Let daughters know that having a husband or partner is not a requirement. Loneliness shouldn’t scare us.”
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For his part, the 64-year-old American director split from his partner, actress Helena Bonham Carter, in 2014 after 13 years together. Burton and Carter have two children together: Bill and Nell. The two met while filming Planet of the Apes in 2001. Since then, the two have collaborated on various films, including Sweeney Todd and Alice in Wonderland. Prior to this long relationship with Bonham Carter (with whom he never walked down the aisle), Burton was married to German special effects technician, painter, and academic Lena Gieseke for four years, from 1987 to 1991.
“Even after 50, a woman can still have a lot of fun,” said the actress a few years ago in an interview with the newspaper “La Repubblica”. It seems it keeps it. Although both the actress and the director are well-known faces in the film industry, they had not coincided in any professional project. Maybe they’ll surprise you again.