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...video was directed by Romain Gavras, cofounder of Kourtrajmé, a collective of filmmakers mostly born in France's banlieues. Kourtrajmé pays homage to the aesthetic of Mathieu Kassovitz's award-winning 1995 film La Haine (Hate), which portrayed banlieue life with brutal realism. For French online media commentator David Abiker, Stress is "a modern work of art in its own right," worthy of the son of legendary filmmaker Costa-Gavras. Stress clearly evokes groundbreaking films such as La Haine, Man Bites Dog, and Clockwork Orange. Yet for the French daily Libération, "it's above...
...particularly among Avner's team, which is run--mostly from afar--by Geoffrey Rush's hard-assed executive spook. The assassins include a hot-blooded South African hit man played by Daniel Craig, who is the next James Bond; Ciaran Hinds as his opposite, a meticulous cleanup artist; Mathieu Kassovitz as a toymaker who dabbles in bombmaking; and Hanns Zischler as an expert document forger. None of them have particularly accommodating natures, but the stress of living under constant danger becomes their bonding agent. The cast too came from all over the globe, including Israel and other parts...
France may be the proud birthplace of cinema, but many of its directors are looking to the U.S. as the place to ply their trade. Michel Gondry isn't alone in choosing Hollywood. Mathieu Kassovitz made his English-language debut earlier this year at the helm of Gothika, starring Halle Berry. The singly named Pitof, best known for his work in computer graphics, will put the cinematic claws into another Berry film, this summer's Catwoman. And Coline Serreau is in preproduction for a much-anticipated English-language remake of her own 2001 thriller Chaos that will star Meryl Streep...
...Mother Teresa: "Godmother of the Outcasts, Madonna of the Unloved." She brings a couple of crabby folks together at the cafe, befriends a brittle-boned artist, takes revenge on the cruel boss of a disabled worker and masterminds a treasure hunt for another sweet soul, Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz). Yet when Nino comes courting, she hides. The stage manager of everyone else's love life, Amelie is stage shy herself...
...Mathieu Kassovitz...