This is how it began…

This is how it ended…

After 14 years of marriage, Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel are done with each other and have broken up. This is not a shock and not a surprise to those who know that Monica and Vincent got sick of looking at each other’s faces a while ago and he’s been living in Brazil while she’s been in Europe with their daughters.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...