Word: kassovitz
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...toys in her apartment and resolves to find its owner. This sets her on a quest to improve the lives of her neighbors, which ranges from humbling the arrogant to playing matchmaker for the romantically frustrated. In the course of this work, she runs across Nino Quincampoix (Mathieu Kassovitz), an adult bookstore employee and carnival worker who spends his free time collecting and arranging discarded pictures from instant-photo booths in train stations. She realizes that one last life needs improving—her own—and returning Nino’s lost photo album provides the perfect opportunity...
...Kassovitz does the same for his role, helping Nino’s earnest charm overshadow his seedy lifestyle. In fact, Nino is often the film’s most likeable character; for all of Amélie’s shy allure, she seems aggravatingly out of touch with the reality around her. The large supporting cast is just as stellar, providing a neighborhood full of eccentric foils for Amélie’s do-gooding. Urbain Cancelier and Jamel Debbouze are particularly amusing as the domineering greengrocer and his meticulous assistant, whose neatly arranged stand doubles...
...release of The Closet, the new standard for French comedy seemed impossibly high, but Amélie raises the bar once again. It’s hard to believe that Jeunet will ever be able to outdo himself—but if he teams up again with Tautou and Kassovitz, consider the result a must...
...addition to Jeunet's deft touch behind the camera, Amélie Poulain benefits from an appealing cast. Audrey Tautou, who won the César-France's top film award-for best new actress last year, gives a heart-melting performance as Amélie. Mathieu Kassovitz, writer and director of the acclaimed 1995 film La Haine, is also disarming as the wholesome sex shop cashier who steals Amélie's heart-and challenges her to tend to her own happiness as well as others'. If, like his heroine, Jeunet gets a kick out of making people feel...
...Self Made Hero could be called The Secret Life of Walter Vichy. Albert Dehousse (Mathieu Kassovitz) is a slow-witted fellow with a gift for mimicry. He was not called for war service, so when a true Resistance hero relates his adventures, Albert uses these particulars to dress up his life. He soon finds he needn't tell many lies about himself; others will sketch the rest of his imagined exploits out of their urgent need for heroes...