Vincent Cassel is a French actor. He first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled French Jewish youth in Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film La Haine (Hate), for which he received two César Award nominations. He garnered wide recognition with English-speaking audiences for his performances in Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007), as well as Eastern Promises (2007), Black Swan (2010), and Jason Bourne (2016). Cassel is also renowned for playing the infamous French bank-robber Jacques Mesrine in Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One. In 2020, he portrayed Engerraund Serac in the HBO television series Westworld. Throughout his career, which spans more than three decades, Cassel has earned critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including a César Award in 2009 and a Canadian Screen Award in 2016.
La Haine is a 1995 French crime drama film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. It is commonly released under its French title "La Haine", although its U.S. VHS release was titled Hate. Starring Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui, the film chronicles a day and night in the lives of three friends from a poor immigrant neighbourhood in the suburbs of Paris. The title derives from a line spoken by one of them, Hubert: "La haine attire la haine!", "hatred breeds hatred". Kassovitz was awarded the Best Director prize at Cannes Film Festival.
Mathieu Kassovitz is a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company. He has won three César Awards: Most Promising Actor for See How They Fall (1994), and Best Film and Best Editing for La Haine (1995). He also received Best Director and Best Writing nominations.
Max, Mon Amoura.k.a.Max, My Love is a 1986 film directed by Nagisa Ōshima, starring Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril, Pierre Étaix and Milena Vukotic. The screenplay was written by Ōshima and Jean-Claude Carrière, and the film was produced by Serge Silberman.
Jacques Audiard is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is the son of Michel Audiard, also a film director and screenwriter.
Nicolas Boukhrief is a French screenwriter, film director and actor.
Lea Massari, born Anna Maria Massetani is an actress and singer from Italy.
Roberto Succo is a 2001 French film directed by Cédric Kahn and based on the true story of the eponymous Italian serial killer Roberto Succo. The film was adapted from the book Je te tue. Histoire vraie de Roberto Succo assassin sans raison by Pascale Froment. The film was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
The 54th Cannes Film Festival started on 14 May and ran until 20 May 2001. Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann was the Jury President. The Palme d'Or went to the Italian film The Son's Room by Nanni Moretti.
A Self Made Hero is a 1996 French film directed by Jacques Audiard. It is based on the novel by Jean-François Deniau.
The 48th Cannes Film Festival was held from 17 to 28 May 1995. The Palme d'Or went to Underground by Emir Kusturica.
Vincent Tulli was born in Paris, 5 February 1966. He is a sound mixer and a sound designer. He is also an actor.
The 50th Cannes Film Festival was held from 7 to 18 May 1997. The Palme d'Or was jointly awarded to Ta'm e guilass by Abbas Kiarostami and Unagi by Shohei Imamura. Jeanne Moreau was the mistress of ceremonies.
Katinka is a 1988 Danish-Swedish drama film directed by Max von Sydow and starring Tammi Øst. Based on Herman Bang's novel Ved Vejen (1886) which is included in the Danish Culture Canon, it was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. At the 24th Guldbagge Awards it won the award for Best Film and Von Sydow won the award for Best Director.
Founded in 2000 by Mathieu Kassovitz, MNP is a French film production company headed by Mathieu Kassovitz and Guillaume Colboc. Kassovitz established the company in 2000 "to develop and produce feature films by Kassovitz and to represent him as a director and actor.". MNP is named after Mir Space Station, whose writing in Cyrillic letters (Мир) look like the letters MNP.
My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument is a 1996 French drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. It won the César Award for Most Promising Actor and was also nominated for Most Promising Actress.
Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne is a French actor. She began her acting career in French cinema, appearing in films such as The Last Mistress (2007) and On War (2008). Seydoux first came to attention after she won the Trophée Chopard and received her first César Award nomination, for her performance in The Beautiful Person (2008).
Rebellion is a 2011 French historical drama film directed, produced, co-written, co-edited, and starring Mathieu Kassovitz. Set in New Caledonia in 1988, but filmed in Tahiti, the film is a dramatised version of the Ouvéa cave hostage taking, when four policemen were murdered by separatists and 30 taken hostage. The French government refused to prolong negotiations and French forces stormed the hideout, killing 19 separatists for the loss of two soldiers and freeing all hostages. Kassovitz, Benoît Jaubert and Pierre Geller were collectively nominated for the 2012 Best Writing (Adaptation) César Award.
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, is a French filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He is best known as the director of films Johnny Mad Dog, A Prayer Before Dawn and La Mule.
