Chiara Mastroianni and Benjamin Biolai, divorced, one child. a beautiful story of love and friendship

They are living proof that successful divorces do exist. 15 years after the split, Benjamin Biolay and Chiara Mastroianni also star in the film. Marcello Mio, by Christophe Honoré, presented at the Cannes Film Festival. The feature film presents the life of Chiara’s father, Italian film legend Marcello Mastroianni. There we find the ex-lovers who have become friends together discussing the life of a patriarch and actor who died almost thirty years ago while smoking some gypsies. Who was he really? He was a kind, loving man. Catherine Deneuve, Kiara’s mother, tries to make her daughter answer these questions by reforming the memories of her romance with the hero. sweet life.

Then it’s exciting to see Benjamin Biola in a character that’s so indispensable in this landscape and so close to his ex-mother-in-law and his ex-wife. He and Chiara Mastroianni had a long relationship in the early 2000s before divorcing seven years later. If their romance was damaged, their duet on screen and in song, the arrival of their daughter Anna in 2003 established an unbreakable bond between them. their mutual affection growing into a firm friendship over time. “Chiara, she is the wife of my life, my second half, in some way…” assured the author of the year of his divorce. The Superb:e in the columns of the magazine He .

Wedding in the 6th District City Hall

He, who was once nicknamed “the new Gainsbourg of song”, never hid his love at first sight for the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni. When he met her in 2001 at the studio of Virgin Music (EMI label), both were not yet 30 years old. Benjamin Biolay is at the peak of his career, having his first success as an album songwriter. Room with a view by Henry Salvador, which he wrote with Karen Ann and the first album under his name, which is also very popular; Rose Kennedy. For her part, Chiara Mastroianni is a recognized actress in the secret world of genre cinema and arthouse films in particular. In the early 2000s, he wanted to open up to a larger audience and agreed to meet the singer to lend his voice to a few of the singer’s songs. “Michelle Duvall (Former head of record label Delabel, editor’s note) asked me to meet Benjamin, whom he introduced to me as a talented artist who likes to make girls sing. I didn’t have any inclination, and I later learned that he didn’t either. We just went to have coffee, to see,” he confided in April 2016 The New Obs .

What did they say to each other in private at this moment? There will certainly be enough things to see the magic happen between them. At that time, he had a reputation as a “ladies’ man”, although quite shy and reserved. He inherited the tenderness and tenderness of his two star parents. In the weeks that followed, they never left each other’s side until they were married just a few months later, in May 2002, under the auspices of the Paris 6th arrondissement. They were often questioned about this somewhat hasty union. “Luckily, I went for it. Can you imagine if he changed his mind? He’ll have fun in later columns Marie Claire . We wanted that, a carefully measured impulse, because it took another seven years.”

Very quickly, Chiara Mastroianni became Biola’s muse, who co-wrote the album with him House (2004), a recording entirely tuned to their two voices. “We’ve got the same audacity, the same smell, the same cracks in the middle of the heart / We’ve got the same anxieties, the same parish,” they sang then, he in his soulful voice, she thin. A record with both sweet and sarcastic lyrics, the musician’s trademark, that also hints at certain aspects of their family life. “You wanted a garden, we had a garden, you wanted a swimming pool, I dug it with my hands (…) You wanted plates, we had plates, a parking lot and supermarkets,” he chants in his semi-desperate air. in the song A slap on the head.

Their sequence

A year ago, in 2003, the couple welcomed their first and only child, a baby girl named Anna; at that time, Kiara already had a son, 8-year-old Milo, from a previous union with Pierre Torreton. Benjamin Biolai still remembers the evening when he became a father, as he told Marie Claire. “It was a beautiful spring night. It went off at midnight. (…) It was unbelievable. His mother in the fields (Editor’s note by Kiara Mastroianni) wanted to stop to buy cigarettes, even though he no longer smoked,” he recalled. For a while, Anna replaced their first common love, music, to become their new bond. “Benjamin and I had a daughter together, it’s for life. And then we overcame everything,” the actress assured this time Gala. Among these things, perhaps the most difficult is the family routine, both having artistic careers.

Five years after Anna’s birth, Benjamin Biolay and Chiara Mastroianni broke up. The end of a joint life, but the beginning of a new story. Although both had other relationships. he especially bonded with Vanessa Paradis and Anna Mouglalis before fathering a second daughter in Argentina, their friendship never changed. In 2017, the actress, now 52, ​​appeared on the album Wolver, singing these words with her ex-husband. “We make neither love nor war… But come in.” In May 2020, on the first day of the lockdown after the Covid-19 pandemic, he appeared in her story. So they covered the song Ballad of Junetaken from somewhere Housetheir joint album.

At the age of 19, their daughter Anna climbed the steps of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival to present the film. Rosalie directed by Stephanie Di Gusto, featured in optional From some point of view. A very special issue for him as he was once again surrounded by divorced parents. On the one hand, Benjamin Biolay, the actor of the same film, who also appeared on the Cannes red carpet. On the other hand, Chiara Mastroianni, in front of him on the stage of the Palais des Festivals as the mistress of ceremonies. Also in the room, French film legend Catherine Deneuve came to cheer on her daughter, granddaughter and ex-son-in-law. “My daughter, her mother and mother-in-law are more important to me than anything else. If I’ve achieved anything, it’s this,” he explained again before meeting them backstage.