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| | Guardian Unlimited Film | Interviews | Interview: Vincent Cassel, star of French movie Irréversible |
 | | Cassel, 36, one of France's leading film actors, is talking about Irréversible, the notorious picture that shocked Cannes, scandalised much of Catholic Europe and opens in Britain today - though only after censors mused long and hard about whether it could be released at all. |
 | | Cassel, already the star of such great French movies as La Haine and L'Appartement as well as Gallic blockbusters such as Brotherhood of the Wolf and Crimson Rivers, has also hardly been starved for work since Irréversible. |
 | | As viewers we are at least uncertain that Cassel's character's attempt to wreak revenge on the attacker is right, rather as we were when we saw John Wayne's character mutate horribly into the husk of a human being as he seeks revenge for the abduction of his niece by Comanches in John Ford's The Searchers. |
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