LA HAINE
Genre
Drama
Language
VOSTA
Duration
97
Rating
About
ENRACINÉ
Alain Farah presents LA HAINE by Mathieu Kassovitz.
Synopsis
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.
*Winner of Best Director award at the1995 Cannes Film Festival.
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.
*Winner of Best Director award at the1995 Cannes Film Festival.
About Alain Farah
Alain Farah is a writer. His third novel, Mille secrets mille dangers, received the 2022 Governor General’s Award and was enthusiastically welcomed by booksellers, the press, and readers of all ages. He co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Mille secrets mille dangers with Philippe Falardeau, which has been shown at numerous festivals (TIFF, FCVQ, Busan, Palm Springs). He has been a professor of French literature at McGill University since 2009.
Release date
April 17, 2026
Directed by
Mathieu Kassovitz
Release year
1995
Version
Original version w/English sub
Country
France
Actors
Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili