Cassel est mort
French actor Jean-Pierre Cassel died three days ago -- Thursday, 4.19 -- in Paris after a long illness. A statement was issued Friday, the Hollywood Reporter posted Rebecca Leffler's story a day after that, and some of us didn't get around to reading the story until Sunday. The 74 year-old was Vincent Cassel's dad. The elder Cassel's final film, Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, will show at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on April 23, 2007 at 12:49 AM
comment #1
Thrudvangar
says ...
I'll have to watch The Crimson Rivers again. I didn't know he was in that. I'm a sucker for films with Vincent in them...and Jean Reno.
Posted by Thrudvangar
at April 23, 2007 8:08 AM
comment #2
nemo
says ...
"Crimson Rivers" was directed by Vincent Cassel's good buddy Mathieu Kassovitz. Vincent's father Jean-Pierre appears in a few brief scenes (blink and you'll miss him) as a professor at the sinister university in the mountains where Vincent and Jean Reno are conducting a murder investigation, with much interference. The movie itself is so-so (a mezzo-mezzo French "Se7en", right down to the elaborately disgusting death scene tableaux), but Vincent Cassel is good and Jean Reno is great.
Jean-Pierre Cassel was never well-known in the US. Most recently his young and handsome self appeared in the re-release of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 "Army of Shadows" as a weak link who betrays his comrades to the Germans. The elder Cassel had a good run around 1970, starring in memorable films directed by Melville, Claude Chabrol, and Luis Buñuel.
Posted by nemo
at April 23, 2007 9:45 AM
comment #3
Spacesheik
says ...
I'll always rememebr him as the amorous, bumbling French pilot in THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES
Posted by Spacesheik
at April 23, 2007 1:17 PM
comment #4
Hallick
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"The 74 year-old was Vincent Cassel's dad."
And Monica Bellucci's father-in-law. If I were him, the cause of death would've been related to an outing at one of those topless european beaches.
Posted by Hallick
at April 23, 2007 1:44 PM