Actor · Voice actor · 1966

Vincent Cassel

5: briefs
13:00: average
65 min: in total

On film.briefs5

Read My Lips

Jacques Audiard · 2001

Read My Lips (2001), directed by Jacques Audiard, follows Carla Behm, a nearly deaf secretary in a Paris construction firm, and Paul Angeli, an ex-convict on parole, as they form an uneasy alliance that blurs professional, criminal, and personal boundaries. Shot with restraint by Mathieu Vadepied and scored sparsely by Alexandre Desplat, the film anchors its suspense in physical detail and acoustic limitation rather than plot mechanics. Emmanuelle Devos won the César for Best Actress for her understated, embodied performance.

13:00

The Shrouds

David Cronenberg · 2024

David Cronenberg’s 2024 film *The Shrouds* follows a widowed inventor who develops ‘GraveTech’, a technology that broadcasts live 3D images of decomposing corpses via modified shrouds. Set in Toronto and conceived as a response to the director’s own bereavement, the film explores grief as a physical, technological, and architectural condition — one that can be hacked, misrendered, and eroticised. With Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, and Guy Pearce, it sustains a tone of clinical unease, privileging conceptual rigour over narrative resolution.

13:00

Black Swan

Darren Aronofsky · 2010

Nina Sayers, a disciplined but fragile dancer at a New York ballet company, wins the lead in Swan Lake and starts losing her grip on reality as she competes with a looser, more sensual rival for the role's darker half. Aronofsky built the film from a decade-old idea about doppelgängers and understudies, shot it on a $13 million budget with Matthew Libatique's camera pressed close to Portman's face, and had his lead actors train in ballet for months before a single scene was filmed.

13:00

La Haine

Mathieu Kassovitz · 1995

Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film tracks three friends from a Paris housing estate — Vinz, Hubert and Saïd — through roughly twenty hours after a riot leaves one of their friends in a coma and a police revolver missing, one of them now carrying it and threatening to use it if the friend dies. Shot in black and white on location in Chanteloup-les-Vignes, the film became a lightning rod in France for its account of police violence and banlieue life, prompting a special screening for the French cabinet.

13:00

Shrek

Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson · 2001

Shrek expands William Steig's picture book into a feature that spends most of its runtime mocking the Disney fairy-tale formula it also structurally depends on, following an ogre who strikes a deal to rescue a princess in exchange for getting his swamp back. Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson for DreamWorks, it grossed $484 million against a $60 million budget and became the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.