What predominates in the game as in the presence of Vincent Cassel is energy. At 58 years old, age of reason and even temperance, the actor is always synonymous with plume, eruptivity, percussion, which holds in part, but not only, his contribution to action cinema.
Meet him on the terrace of a bar where he has his habits, in the 20the Arrondissement of Paris is to deal with someone who moves all the time, who changes positions during maintenance (in the sun? In the shade?), Who does not wait for the end of the question to send you another, who moves and stuns you like a boxer in the ring. Cassel belongs well to the family of expansive actors, to the game turned outwards, and that is undoubtedly what he imposed on the French cinema of literary obedience in the edge of the 1990s: a gesture, an attitude, an tone to which he was no longer used to it since, let’s say, Belmondo.
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