France
1995
96 minutes
Black and White
1.85:1
French
381
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.
| Vinz | Vincent Cassel |
| Hubert | Hubert Koundé |
| Saïd | Saïd Taghmaoui |
| Abdel | Abdel Ahmed Ghili |
| Director | Mathieu Kassovitz |
| Screenplay | Mathieu Kassovitz |
| Producer | Christophe Rossignon |
| Cinematography | Pierre Aïm |
| Line producer | Gilles Sacuto |
| Associate producers | Adeline Lecallier and Alain Rocca |
| Sound | Vinecent Tulli |
| Editing | Mathieu Kassovitz and Scott Stevenson |
| Art direction | Giuseppe Ponturo |
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET:
In November 2005, riots spread throughout the suburbs of Paris following the accidental deaths of two teenagers in the poor banlieue district of Clichy-sous-Bois. Running from police, who had broken up their football game to conduct ID checks and questioning (this sort of action was allegedly...
To start on a personal note: I wrote a book about La haine that came out in November 2005, just as the Paris suburbs (banlieue) erupted in an unprecedented wave of violence. Every night, as in the Bob Marley song we hear over the credits, there was burning and looting and clashes with the...
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