They formed an emblematic couple, in life and on screen. For 13 years, François Cluzet and Valérie Bonneton loved each other, at the same time as they filmed. They met in 1997 when they starred in the movie The way is clear… and fate seemed set for the lovebirds. We saw them, again, side by side in Janis and John by Samuel Benchetrit, in France shop by Tonie Marshall, but also in the enormous success of Guillaume Canet, The little handkerchiefsin 2010.
Reality, alas, sometimes meets fiction. In The little handkerchiefs, Valérie Bonneton and François Cluzet embodied a couple in the midst of a crisis. And it is precisely by promoting the feature film by Guillaume Canet that the two actors announced their own breakup, far from the sets and the big screens. Of course, this separation was difficult to evoke in public, but it was even more so in private. And for good reason. They had welcomed a first son, Joseph, in 2001, then a little girl, Marguerite, in 2006.
We reflected calmly and wisely, we did things well
“With François, we thought for whole evenings about how we were going to announce things to them.explained Valérie Bonneton in the columns of the magazine Paris Match. What words to use, how to tell them without hurting them. We reflected calmly and wisely, we did things well“. A difficult step for the whole family, but a necessary step. François Cluzet, who turns 66 on September 21, 2022, married in second marriage the former director of communication of the InterContinental Carlton Cannes, Narjiss Slaoui- Falcoz – he had been married in the 1980s to screenwriter and producer Chantal Perrin, with whom he had Blanche in 1984. As for Valérie Bonneton, she hasn’t talked about her love life so much since the official announcement of her break with François Cluzet. Rumor has it, however, that she fell back into the arms of a love of youth. If that’s not cute…