Mathieu Kassovitz

Mathieu Kassovitz is a Acteur, Scénariste and Réalisateur French of Cinéma, born the August 3rd 1967 with Paris, Île-de-France.

Biography

He is the son of Peter Kassovitz, realizer French of origin judéo - Hungarian which left Budapest for Paris in 1956 at the time of the Insurrection of Budapest against the Soviet troops .

As a realizer, Mathieu Kassovitz counts many cinematographic successes. After noticebeing noticed for Mongrel in 1993, it creates the event with the Hatred , which it writes and realizes, an at the same time French and international success which gains three Césars (César of the best assembly, César of the best film, César of the best producer) and the price of the setting in scene to the Cannes festival 1995.

It carries out then the Rivers crimsons , a police thriller with Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel, which is also a great business success, then Gothika , a fantastic thriller, with Halle Berry and Penélope Cruz. Even if these two films testify to an artistic ambition near of the esthetism to the American cinema, they do not remain less conclusive about it and frames on scenarios sometimes considered to be not very convincing: the end of the Rivières Crimsons is indeed not easily comprehensible for some (even if because of its statute of adaptation, that is not entirely ascribable in Kassovitz).

He admitted not to have agreed to carry out the second that to try an adventure with Hollywood but especially to pile up part of the money necessary to the realization of a more personal project holding to him with heart for a long time: Babylon A.D. .

This film which it currently carries out is the adaptation of Babylon Babies , novel of the writer Maurice G. Dantec.

With the beginning of the year 2000, it had also a project of science fiction film, which it wanted to be a French equivalent of 2001. The action proceeded partly on board International space station. In order to be able to use the Airbus A300 Zero-G de Novespace for the sequences in weightlessness, a studio of turning was established near the airport of Bordeaux-Mérignac. Unfortunately turning is stopped.

He is married with the ex-actress become costumière Julie Mauduech, whom he directed in Métisse . They have a fore-mentioned girl Carmen together.

Catalog of films

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Rewards

See too

  • Official site of Mathieu Kassovitz
  • short films of Mathieu Kassovitz in DVD

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