Claude Lelouch and Valérie Perrin have been sharing their lives for eighteen years. To our colleagues at Parisianthe couple decides to tell the story of their meeting and to reveal this gift that changed everything.
This Wednesday, November 13, Claude Lelouch releases his 51st film, Eventually. Lino has decided to give up everything to do only what he loves, but he will discover that the trials of life are necessary for “his own good”. For this comedy, nominated for the 2024 Deauville American Cinema Festival and the 2024 Venice Film Festival, Claude Lelouche decided to surround himself with Kad Merad and Elsa Zylberstein. It was also his partner Valérie Perrin who had the idea of the actor who will play the main role, by meeting the latter on the TGV. “When Valérie told me about Kad, I said to myself: ‘Obviously!’. With him, it was nothing but happiness”confides the 87-year-old director to our colleagues at Parisian. In recent years, Claude Lelouch has been able to count on the support of his wife, the author Valérie Perrin, in his career. A duo who have been complicit for 18 years.
How did Claude Lelouch and Valérie Perrin meet?
“Our story began in Deauville, in September 2006, on the occasion of the inauguration of Place Claude-Lelouch. A journalist, friend of Valérie, slipped a letter into my pocket”says Claude Lellouche, before his companion specifies: “It was an open letter to Claude’s cinema, which I admire”. “In the evening, I opened this letter. My ego was satisfied, but above all I was impressed by the pen and the talent. I said to myself: 'There is someone who saw in my films what I thought I was the only one to have seen“confides the director. The two cinema lovers begin to see each other without beginning a seduction due to their 30-year age difference.
How many children do Claude Lelouche and Valérie Perrin have?
“We were so good together, there was no time to lose!”confides Valérie, before Claude Lelouch specifies: “Our love story was built on admiration”. The couple is waiting until 2023 to get married and although they do not have a child in common, they have built a large blended family. “I was welcomed with open arms. With Claude’s seven children and my two children, we have nine in total, and eight grandchildren”. A (very) big family.
