Actress Gemma Arterton’s Divorce Finalised

James Bond actress Gemma Arterton has divorced her husband Stefano Catelli.

Gemma Bovery is in cinemas now. “She’s just not ready to settle down yet, and she’s chosen the wrong man”.

The former couple, who split in 2012 after two years of marriage, were granted a decree nisis during a brief hearing at the Central Family Court in High Holborn, London today (08.21.15). While amusing in fits and starts, Gemma Bovery is neither comedy of manners nor sharply observed tragedy.

Simmonds, 70, claims she was inspired to write it “by seeing a woman in a cafe overloaded with designer handbags and treating her boyfriend like a dog”.

But while Gemma and Martin’s life in Normandy might be rustic, Fontaine resists the temptation to make it idyllic: plagued by cold and damp, mice and rising debts, Gemma succumbs to an affair with young landowner Hervé, sowing the seeds of her tragedy. “I was initially reluctant to consider doing [Gemma Bovery]”, the actress admits.

“I don’t know how I feel about marriage; whether it’s really necessary”.

“It plays on the British dream of the French rural idyll”, Arterton continues. I’d always thought that – then I got married. Now, though, she speaks it fluently.

Arterton is now seeing French assistant director Franklin Ohanessian, with whom she confirmed romance in 2014.

Things go wrong for Rusty very quickly, of course, although the script – the movie is co-written and co-directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan M Goldstein – offers a rather flat trajectory for the first half-hour, despite a strained in-joke in which Rusty explains how his vacation, compared to his father Clark’s (Chevy Chase) original vacation, will stand on its own two feet.

The French media appear to have taken Arterton to their hearts, with one magazine describing her as “la Brit girl qu’on adore” (the British girl we love).