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Virginie Efira and Niels Schneider showed their complicity on the Cannes red carpet with a very noticeable kiss in front of the photographers.
The glamor was there on the Croisette this Monday, May 18. For the rise of the steps of the film The Unknown by Arthur Harari, presented in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Virginie Efira and Niels Schneider offered one of the most romantic moments of the evening to the photographers gathered in front of the Palais des Festivals.
Hand in hand, the two actors multiplied their knowing gestures before exchanging a long kiss under the crackle of flashes. A scene that you can see in video below which quickly sparked a reaction on the Croisette (and beyond).
The couple, together for several years, rarely demonstrate. But in Cannes, where each is defending several projects this year, Virginie Efira and Niels Schneider seem more united than ever.
The 38-year-old actor climbed the steps to The Unknowna thriller by Arthur Harari in which he co-stars with Léa Seydoux. A few days earlier, the Belgian actress had already walked the red carpet to defend Parallel stories d’Asghar Farhadi poetry Suddenly by Japanese director Ryōsuke Hamaguchi, both in competition.
Age as “one piece of data among many others »
This new Cannes appearance of the couple also recalls a memory that remains famous on the Croisette. Already in 2019, Virginie Efira and Niels Schneider appeared together for the presentation of Sibyl by Justine Triet. The actor then knelt at the feet of the actress to help her with a shoe problem in the middle of the red carpet.
The couple, who met in 2017 on the set of the film An impossible lovehas also assumed his relationship for a long time despite their ten years apart. Interviewed recently in Sept à Huit on this age difference with Niels Schneider, Virginie Efira explained that she understood “Curiosity” aroused at the start, but also felt that « ces choses-là changent » Today. For the actress, it is important to consider age as «A woman seems to me full of others» in a relationship.
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