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La Haine

Matthieu Kassovitz  •   France/Italy  • ​  1995
98 mins  •  HD  •   R18 violence & offensive language
​ ​In French and Italian with English subtitles

​Tensions between residents and police rise to boiling point in the banlieues of Paris. Kassovitz's cinematic sensation contrasts gritty atmosphere with poetic surrealism. 

“The style and attitude of true rebellion” – Independent

DIRECTOR: Mathieu Kassovitz
PRODUCER: Christophe Rossignon

PRODUCTION CO: Les Productions Lazzenec
PHOTOGRAPHY: Pierre Aïm
EDITOR: Mathieu Kassovitz

MUSIC: Assassin
WITH: Vincent Cassel (Vinz), Hubert Koundé (Hubert), Saïd Taghmaoui (Saïd), Marc Duret (Inspector Notre Dame), Benoît Magimel (Benoît), Abdel Ahmed Ghili (Abdel), François Levantal (Astérix)

​FESTIVALS: Cannes 1995 – Best Director

REVIEWS

“Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La Haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing 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 marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches 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.”

– Janus Films

“[Kassovitz] combats the inertia and boredom of his frustrated antagonists with a thrusting, jiving camera style which harries and punctuates their rambling, often very funny dialogue. The politics of the piece are confrontational, to say the least, but there is a maturity and depth to the characterisation which goes beyond mere agitprop: society may be on the point of self-combustion, but this film betrays no appetite for the explosion. A vital, scalding piece of work.”

– Tom Charity,
Time Out
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