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Jean-Pierre Cassel: La Haine
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Blue eyed Vincent Cassel was born in Paris to a leading French actor father, Jean-Pierre Cassel and a journalist mother. Often labeled as a tough guy because of his roles, eclectic choices and talent have made of him a star of European cinema. First in La haine, the young actor, actually coming from upper classes, succeeded to express the despair of a social class living in the suburbs of towns, breaking totally with his personal life. Then the success of The crimson rivers, where he plays a young French cop alongside Jean Reno, made of him "the man to count on". He never hid his taste for rap music, break dance, Capoeira, Brasil and his endless energy, but Vincent is ... a family man, married to Monica Bellucci, his Italian co-star from The Apartment; and recently a father. Now a rising international star, Cassel could easily become the idol of many.
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Blue eyed Vincent Cassel was born in Paris to a leading French actor father, Jean-Pierre Cassel and a journalist mother. Often labeled as a tough guy because of his roles, eclectic choices and talent have made of him a star of European cinema. First in La haine, the young actor, actually coming from upper classes, succeeded to express the despair of a social class living in the suburbs of towns, breaking totally with his personal life. Then the success of The crimson rivers, where he plays a ...[Read Story]
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No conversation with Cassel can ever be complete without a discussion of La Haine. Its initial influence was staggering; France’s Prime Minister Alain Juppé organised a special screening of the film to give his cabinet a wider concept of the nation’s social disintegretation. Almost a decade later, many observers drew parallels between the criticisms that writer/director Mathieu Kassovitz levelled in La Haine to the influencing factors behind France’s civil unrest in 2005.
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During the same period, Cassel was seen in various all-star English-language productions such as Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), Is Paris Burning? (1966), and Oh! What a Lovely War (1969). He had ... fallen deeply in love with Catherine Deneuve's sister Françoise Dorléac, with whom he had starred in Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1962). According to Cassel, it was "a terrible, destructive passion". (Dorléac was killed in a motor accident in 1967.)
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Cassel was a bit player in movies, television, and on the stage when the American actor and dancer Gene Kelly discovered him for The Happy Road (1956). Later Cassel, a tall man with an expressive, mobile face, achieved fame as the comic protagonist in a series of films directed by Philippe de Broca. These included…
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In 2006, at age 74, he climbed back on stage for a retrospective of Serge Gainsbourg entitled Jean-Pierre Cassel chante et danse Gainsbourg Suite. This homage to an old friend (he knew Gainsbourg in the 1950s) featured various songs of the famous French composer among which three unpublished songs named Top à Cassel : Cliquediclac, Ouh ! Là là là là et Viva la pizza (all of these songs where intended for a television show aired in 1964).
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