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La Haine
on DVD (1995)
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| Starring: |
Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Said Taghmaoui |
| Director: |
Mathieu Kassovitz |
| Studio: |
TARTAN VIDEO |
| Run time: |
97 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| Genres: |
Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema |
| Languages: |
French |
| Subtitles: |
English |
| Released: |
19/02/2001
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Brief synopsis of La Haine
Shot in black and white cinema verite style, this film follows a day in the life of three aimless, violence-prone, ethnically-diverse young men who hail from the same decaying housing project in Paris. Vinz, who is Jewish, is the angriest and the least intelligent of the three. North African Said is calmer, but is the most despairing about his future. Hubert is Black, and the most mature, channeling his rage through boxing. Although the trio seethes with fury over the arrest and senseless beating of an Arab friend, each manages to keep the other in check. But that changes after Vinz finds a loaded gun--and the trio becomes entangled with the police, and later a group of skinheads. Mathieu Kassovitz won the Best Director prize for LA HAINE at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Radio Times
Responsible for causing a scandal on its domestic release, this bruising portrait of disaffected youth confirmed its writer/director Mathieu Kassovitz as the wunderkind of French cinema. Presenting the housing schemes on the outskirts of Paris as hotbeds of racial hatred and social unrest, the film follows three lads from different ethnic backgrounds and explores how they spend their endless spare time and their response to a case of police brutality. Vincent Cassel is outstanding as the Jewish skinhead, but it's Kassovitz's restless camerawork and a script as funny as it is hard-hitting that make this such an impressive and important work.
USA Today
"...Writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz (Cafe au Lait) mines so much tension and pointed dialogue from a low budget and deceptively simple premise..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars
Los Angeles Times
"...Raw, vital and captivating....HATE is a visceral fable of a divided society heading blindly for a crash-landing..."
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