Their relationship would have started four months ago at the Lyon Lumière Film Festival and now the magazine ‘Paris Match’ has photographed the director and the actress walking together through the French capital.
New surprise couple in the world of cinema: the director and filmmaker Tim Burton and the Italian actress Monica Bellucci have been in a romantic relationship for four monthswhen they coincided at the Lumière de Lyon Film Festival, as confirmed by the magazine Paris Matchwhat has photographed the couple walking their love through the streets of the French capital.
According to the publication, both they had briefly crossed paths on the stairs of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes in 2006, when the filmmaker attended the premiere of ‘Marie Antoinette’ (Sofia Coppola) and the actress attended the premiere of ‘Transylvania’ (Tony Gatlif)., but it was not until 16 years later when, behind the scenes of another festival, both became intimate. She, single since she broke up with the artist Nicolas Lefebvre in 2019, and he, separated from the mother of her children, Helena Bonham Carter, since 2014, were free for love to triumph.
The 64-year-old American and the 58-year-old Italian are fundamental to understanding the history of contemporary cinemaso their relationship has jumped hopelessly from the most general gossip to all imaginable cultural publications.
If we review Tim Burton’s best films, it is not difficult to find various jewels that have marked the collective imagination. Capable of impregnating part of his ideas in his first pretentious assignment, ‘Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure’ (1985), his approach became really clear in the hilarious ‘Bitelchús’ (1988), a success that allowed him to take charge of the magnificent ‘Batman’ (1989) which, in turn, gave him carte blanche to film the personal ‘Edward Scissorhands’ (1990) and darken the dark knight at will in ‘Batman Returns’ (1992), our top 1 among the films Batman ranked from worst to best.
Inspired like never before, he gave us gems like ‘Ed Wood’ (1994), ‘Mars Attacks!’ (1996) and ‘Sleepy Hollow’ (1999) and, after the avalanche of negative criticism after his improvable ‘Planet of the Apes’ (2001), he was able to recover with ‘Big Fish’ (2003) and ‘Corpse Bride’ ( 2005). A pity that, after the great ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ (2007), we have not been able to run into that imaginative art director again.
For his part, Monica Bellucci rose to international fame when she played one of the three vampiric brides in ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992), a premiere that was only appreciated in Europe, increasing the filmography of the actress with Italian and French productions. Among its fundamental titles are productions such as ‘Malèna’ (Giuseppe Tornatore, 2000), ‘The pact of the wolves’ (Christophe Gans, 2001), ‘Irreversible’ (Gaspar Noé, 2002), ‘Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra’ (Alain Chabat, 2002), ‘The Matrix Reloaded’ (Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, 2003), ‘The Passion of the Christ’ (Mel Gibson, 2004), ‘The Secret of the Brothers Grimm’ (Terry Gilliam, 2005), ‘ Shoot ‘Em Up: In the spotlight’ (Michael Davis, 2007) ‘Spectre’ (Sam Mendes, 2015) and, of course, in a dream by David Lynch in ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ (2017).
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