Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Cane, the glamorous couple of French cinema, announced their separation “common consent” today in a statement sent by their environment to the French News Agency (AFP).

“After 18 years of life in life, Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Cane decided to divide a common consent,” according to the announcement. “This decision was taken by mutual goodwill.”

Cotillard, 49 years old and Cane, 52 years old, “parents of two children, share this decision here in order to avoid any guess, rumor and dangerous interpretation,” the press release continues.

“Demonstrating transparency through this announcement, Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Cane also express their willingness to make their privacy and especially that of their two children to be respected.”

The audience discovered their bond in 2003 in the movie “Love me if you dare”, where two friends were played, causing each other in love. Their relationship will be formalized a few years later in 2007.

It is the time when their careers are entering a new dimension: Marion Gujjar has just turned “Life like a rose”, a biographical film about Edith Piaf who will give her an Oscar and bring her to one of the most famous French cinema and the world’s cinema, and will also show her in the world. “Chasing” filmmakers, such as James Gray or Christopher Nolan.

For his part, Guillaume Cane will become one of the most important French directors, winning the Cesar Award for Best Director that year for the movie “Don’t Say it to anyone”.

Faces dear to the public, as each of them follow more than a million fans on Instagram, the two actors do their practice and social consciousness: he in favor of agriculture and that in favor of climate and ecology.