Mathieu Kasovitz
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French director and actor Mathieu Kassovitz is said to have been seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. Kassovitz’s misfortune happened during a motorcycle course on the Autodrome de Montlhéry, a racetrack south of Paris.
It is not yet known how exactly the accident happened and what injuries the filmmaker sustained. The 56-year-old is not in mortal danger. However, according to The Hollywood Reporter, his condition is “worrying”. Kassovitz, who is also active as an actor (including in “The Fabulous World of Amélie”), is said to have taken a refresher course at the circuit to improve his motorcycling skills for his next project.
Mathieu Kassovitz made his breakthrough as a filmmaker and screenwriter with “La Haine” in 1995. The milieu study about three young men from a Paris suburb who are exposed to police violence and crime in the so-called “banlieus” earned Kassovitz the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Starring Vincent Cassel (Black Swan), Hubert Koundé (The Gardener) and Saïd Taghmaoui (John Wick: Chapter 3), La Haine is considered one of the most influential French films of recent times and made the then unknown leading actors famous overnight.