Multimedia Collection
Hate (La Haine)
DVD
97 min
1995
PN1995.9 .F67 H356 2007 DVD
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 it reaches a climatic 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.
In French with optional English subtitles.
Distributed by The Criterion Collection (criterion.com).
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