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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FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

New Plymouth
Wednesday, 06 May, 6.00pm

Hamilton 
Monday, 18 May, 6.30pm

Queenstown 
Tuesday, 02 June, 8.00pm

​Whanganui
Monday, 15 June, 7.00pm

​Palmerston North
Wednesday, 24 June, 6.00pm

Dunedin  
Wednesday, 15 July, 7.30pm

​Canterbury  
Monday, 27 July, 7.00pm​

Nelson  
Wednesday, 05 August, 6.00pm​

​Auckland 
Monday, 21 September, 6.15pm
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French Connections is presented in
​co-operation with the Institut Français and the Embassy of France