Known for his cult Hate, released in 1995, Mathieu Kassovitz has long been the voice of working-class neighborhoods. But the one who notably called for blocking the FN in 2017 and who was fined in 2019 following insults against Éric Ciotti today seems to have changed his mind. In any case, this is what we can read on social networks, following his television appearance on LCI this Saturday, June 22 and replayed en masse on X. A truncated video summarizing the exchange in just 37 seconds in which we hear the actor say “I have always been a little waiting for the FN to come to power, to see what the real reaction of the French is. Are we really the country of human rights or have we become something else? It’s also interesting, because maybe we have become something else, and we have to accept that too.”
The interpreter of Nino Quincampoix in The fabulous destiny of Amelie Poulain continues: “Maybe the FN has its place in France, and maybe they will do a better job, and maybe this is an experiment to try. I think we’ll never know who we are if we haven’t been through that stage.” It didn’t take much for the web to get carried away and two camps to emerge: one, welcoming Kassovitz’s apparent position, the other accusing him of treason. However, when presented as a whole, the extract shows a director who is more fatalistic than vindictive, albeit clumsy. Originally asked about his potential participation in a demonstration in the event of a victory for the RN, the actor details: “I’m not really into protesting. I am for… I am going to get myself into trouble… I am for the revolution, violence in the face of violence”. An ambiguous statement but one to consider in its entirety, therefore.
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Mathieu Kassovitz, a taste for controversy?
Regularly singled out for his outspokenness and his contradictory positions, Mathieu Kassovitz is not at his first bad buzz. Very active on X (formerly Twitter), the filmmaker definitely doesn’t have his tongue in his pocket! Insults to Éric Ciotti, but also to Nicolas Dupont-Aignan following his support for Marine Le Pen in 2017, tweets amused by the attack on Kim Kardashian in Paris in 2016, or even a recent declaration of war on Saïd Taghmaoui to whom he proposed a boxing match, Mathieu Kassovitz seems to have forgotten the adage that made him famous: “the important thing is not the fall, it’s the landing”. Let’s hope for the director that the latter is not too violent.
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