On Wednesday September 6, Mathieu Kassovitz will star in Yann Gozlan’s thriller, Visions, in which he plays the doctor husband of Diane Kruger, subject to hallucinations since she reconnected with her first lesbian love. Last year, he starred in Alexandre Ribot’s excellent film, L’Astronaute. Lively and sometimes fiery personality, he likes to live fast and strong, practice boxing and motorcycling. The actor was the victim of a motorcycle accident while training on a circuit in Essonne. His condition is considered “worrying” but his vital prognosis is not engaged.
In 1990, he directed in the arena with a cheeky short film, Fierrot le Pou, which won awards at several festivals, and, two years later, made his first feature film, Métisse with Julie Mauduech, whom he married. In 1995, he made a spectacular entrance into the scene with La Haine, an explosive black and white film about violence in the suburbs which he himself directed and which revealed Vincent Cassel. A prophetic finding that has never been denied by current events in almost thirty years. He won the César for best film and the prize for directing at the Cannes Film Festival. Two years later, he returned to the Croisette with a very violent film, Assassin(s), which recounted the methods of a killer played by Michel Serrault. Criticism the gun, it is a failure in room.
At the same time, Mathieu Kassovitz returned behind the camera with Les Rivières pourpres (2000), with actors Vincent Cassel and Jean Reno, and ventured into Hollywood in 2003 with the fantastic thriller Gothika (2003). Driven by success, he embarked on an ambitious film, Babylon A.D. (2008) adapted by Maurice G. Dantec, but the public did not follow, and continued with a controversial film which was also a big commercial failure, L’Ordre et la Morale, on the hostage-taking in the cave of Ouvéa in New Caledonia in May 1988. In 2017, he appeared in several films, De plus belle, Happy end, Valérian and the City of a thousand planets . He also lends his voice to the excellent historical series Apocalypse: World War II, broadcast on France 2 from 2009.
A prolific and eclectic actor, Mathieu Kassovitz returned to the fore in 2015 thanks to director Éric Rochant in Le Bureau des Légendes. His subtle and mysterious character as an agent torn between his missions and the love of a woman makes him one of the pillars of this internationally successful French series.
Willingly carried away, sometimes outrageous even if it means apologizing, the actor has often found himself in controversy and the fire of the media with his strong positions against police violence or antivax during the Covid crisis. His way of being a committed citizen.
