And with his latest performance as one of frances most notorious. The 10 best vincent cassel movies you need to watch posted on august 23, 2016 august 23, 2016 by eustacia adams as one of the best known french actors working today, vincent cassel has a penchant for playing compelling characters driven by a deeper desire. The 10 best vincent cassel movies you need to watch. He is sent to the saintvincentdepaul prison, where he is exposed to. But after a year, he realized he was irrevocably, irredeemably, irresistibly french.
Vincent cassel interview for mesrine one of frances best loved actors, vincent cassel has always refused to court hollywood. Vincent cassel, as a reallife french master criminal, puts public enemies in. Thats certainly true of mesrine, which follows cassel s brilliant turn as the gangster, from his wellpublicized extinguishing in paris in 1979, back to his first dabblings in incidental thuggery, through to his many escapes from prison and romantic dalliances with the some of frances leading ladies. Cassel is an aa renained for playin the infamous french bankrobber jacques mesrine in mesrine. That will be a thing of the past as lovers of the gangster genre, in particular, will be spellbound by his work in the two backtoback awardwinning films.
The death instinct mesrine, jacques, greene, robert, texier, catherine, greene, robert. Vincent cassel interview an inside look at the life and. Killer instinct r, 1 minutes he was a ruthless killer, bank robber, kidnapper and prison break artistand a selfpromoting egomaniac who wrote books some compared to camus. Vincent cassel stars in a hardboiled performance as the french criminal who. A twofilm project focused on the life of notorious french gangster jacques mesrine has been stuck in development for ages. Mesrine is a twopart 2008 french biographical crime film on the life of french gangster jacques mesrine, directed by jeanfrancois richet and written by abdel raouf dafri and richet. Vincent cassel absolutely dominates the screen as the completely crazy, vicious french gangster jacques mesrine. Vincent cassel is a french actor who has appeared in over twentyfive films in france and the united states but he has not been a highly recognizable actor to american audiences. The movie is generally true to the book and well worth seeing. Vincent cassel joue mesrine coulisse jacques ennemi public 1. Public enemy number one, detailed mesrine s criminal career. He garnered wide recognition with englishspeaking audiences for his performances in oceans. Cassel was discovered by gene kelly as he tap danced on stage, and later cast in the 1957 film the happy road. In 2008 there were two featurelength films based on his life, one of them starring vincent cassel in the lead role.
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