The sensational appearance of Luc Besson, his wife and four children on the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival

A return that can cause a lot of ink flow. Directed by Luc Besson, who appeared on the Venice red carpet on Thursday August 31st for the Venice Film Festival. The filmmaker presented his film there DogMan: (2023), a dark and psychological thriller that tells the story of a young man who, after being abused as a child, leads a marginal life surrounded only by dogs. A role played by the American Caleb Landry Jones.

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This red carpet was done with family, Luc Besson along with his wife Virginie Cilla, whom he has been married to since 2004, as well as their children Satten, 20, Mao, 17, and Talia, 22. Shanna Besson was also there, the product of the director’s past union with Maiven.

Controversial return

Anyway, Luc Besson’s name has been mentioned many times in both media and social media during the rise of #MeToo. the director of Leon (1994) was actually the subject of a rape complaint in 2018 by actress Sand Van Roy. A charge that ended up being contested by the latter but upheld by the Paris Court of Appeal on May 24, 2023. If the filmmaker was thus released, the testimonies of 8 other women were collected. Mediapart.

A period remembered by Virginie Silla, who shared the director’s life for almost twenty years, in the columns. Paris game, Aug. 31: “On this day in May 2018, Luke and I were leaving lunch with a comedian in Philadelphia. My phone vibrated several times. […] I read the alert headlines. I turn to him and laughingly say: “Ah, finally!” I had been warning him for several weeks. Given the image people have of her, she was perfect prey in France to launch a #MeToo movie,” he said. Moreover, it should be noted that it was at this moment that she found out about her husband’s many betrayals.

“I cheated on you and it’s not the first time.”

While she was listing the press headlines, Virginie Silla realized that she had been having an affair with her accuser. “I laughed less there…” he admits. And continue. “I asked him the usual questions that these kinds of circumstances dictate. Luke was avoiding, then suddenly he said to me. “I lied to you, and it’s not the first time.” Like that, on the sidewalk in Philadelphia.” In a still bitter tone, he adds that he had long had “doubts about his betrayals”, which his spouse “always managed to dispel”.

After this discovery, the couple returned to Los Angeles, where they live, the same evening. “It was a bit cold, but we got home […]. From then on, we managed things together as a family. I did not think that he would live somewhere else, because it is our house and he is the father of the children,” explains the fifty-year-old man. Who welcomes, moreover, the reaction of Luc Besson, who “never shirked his responsibilities and did not avoid questions, be it in front of him; [elle] or ahead [ses] children”. A test that will not be right in their love.

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