Cecile Cassel

The daughter of Jean-Pierre Cassel and the half-sister of Vincent Cassel, Gallic screen star Cécile Cassel exuded an alluring and slightly enigmatic quality onscreen that gave her a loyal following among cinemagoers. Those elements served her well in such outings as the 2002 La Bande du Drugstore (as the distant object of affections of a slightly backward young man in mid-1960s Paris), and the 2007 The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (as the eccentric and mysterious neighbor of a French family). In 2008, Cassel signed on to work for the iconic French director Eric Rohmer in that helmer's lyrical classicist drama Les Amours d'Astrée et Céladon - playing the niece of a druid cleric who helps devise a far-out scheme to reunite two estranged lovers.

~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide