They are not linked only by their love of cinema, nor even their filmography. Anaïs Demoustier and Valérie Donzelli, who collaborated together in 2015 on the drama Marguerite and Julien, also have one man in common. And imagine that Monsieur is far from being a stranger. He was also present, too, on the set of the film mentioned above … since he played the main role!
This actor is Jérémie Elkaïm. If he has been the star of Valérie Donzelli in many films, in Queen of apples for example or in Together, with Valérie Lemercier, the 43-year-old actor was above all the director’s life partner. They even had two children, Rebecca and Gabriel, a son who was “very sick“, whose complicated story inspired that of War is declared, in 2011.
The feature film, awarded in Gijón, Cabourg, Hong Kong and Palm Springs, told the battle of a couple of young parents who try to save their boy, suffering from a rare brain tumor. “The Queen of Apples is a movie about a breakup that I made at a time when I was feeling down, explained Valérie Donzelli, as Allociné recalls. War is declared is part of the same process: using something that I have experienced in a sad way to make it something positive. The film was in the making for a long time inside of me and at one point I realized that it was time to do it.“
Following this separation, Jérémie Elkaïm was in a relationship with Anaïs Demoustier, with whom he has a daughter. The chronology of his romantic life is very uncertain. We do not know, moreover, if he is still in love with the one who was his Marguerite at the cinema, recently seen in The loves of Anaïs. Last June, in any case, it was with Valentine Catzéflis, another actress, that he attended a tennis match in the stands of Roland-Garros, in Paris. However, she also played twice for Valérie Donzelli, in War is declared and in Together. But who knows? They may just be both very fond of rackets and clay …
Find Anaïs Demoustier in the film “La Villa”, October 25, 2021 on France 3.