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When he was just twenty-nine years old, Mathieu Kassovitz took the international film world by storm with La haine (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically in the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—a Jew, an African, and an Arab—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social marginalization slowly simmering until they reach a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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Inspired by cinematic classics including "Mean Streets", "Do The Right Thing" and "The Battle ot'Algiers", Mathieu Kassovitz's "La Haine" is arguably the most incendiary, provocative, and prescient film to emerge from the 90's.
Starkly shot in black and white to show a Paris not on any tourist map, the film deals with France's intolerance towards outsiders, following Vinz (Vincent Cassel, "Irreversible", "Oceans 12"), Hubert (the magnificent Hubert Kounde) and Said (Sai'd Taghmaoui, "Hideous Kinky", "Three Kings"), three young men trapped in the Parisian economic, ethnic and social underclass.
Sensationally premiered at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, "La Haine" saw Kassovitz rewarded with the Best Director prize and subsequently went on to win three Cesars (including Best Film). Marked by its unapologetic brutality and verite style, "La Haine" acted as a compelling wake up call to Europe. |
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Their lives are suddenly shaken-up when one of their friends is beaten into a coma by the police. The housing estate erupts and the three disillusioned friends, forced to breaking point, seek revenge with deadly consequences... An account of one crucial day in the lives of three ethnically diverse teenagers in a low-income housing estate in Paris, La Haine examines the spiral of hate which exists between the estates inhabitants and the police. Hubert, a would be boxer, is black; he's learnt how to challenge his aggression while Vince, a working class Jew, is full of rage against his hopeless existence. Said, a droll, awkward son of Arab immigrants acts as a go-between for his two friends. Like most of their peers, they are unemployed and survive on petty-crime and dealing dope. With violent showdowns between the police and young people a regular occurrence in Paris ghettos, La Haine's subject matter made a huge impact in France not least with Prime Minister, Alain Juppe, who called for a special screening for his cabinet so they could see what they were up against. |
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