LA HAINE
Genre
Drama
Language
VOSTA
Duration
97
Rating
About
PSYCHOANALYTIC PROJECTIONS
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.
*Winner of Best Director award at the1995 Cannes Film Festival.
Directed by
Mathieu Kassovitz
Actors
Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili
Country
France
Version
Original w/English subtitles
Release year
1995