La Haine (1995)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 97m
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Saïd Taghmaoui
Synopsis:
Three disaffected youths from the Parisian 'banlieues' acquire a police firearm and embark on an odyssey through the capital, seething about the wounding of a friend in a civil disturbance. Despite their attempts to have a good time, every encounter leads only to defensiveness and confrontation.
Review:
A shocking indictment of life in the 'projects', highly formal in its filming but gritty in its profane, albeit poetically repetitious, dialogue and chaotic delivery. Spread over the course of a single day, it is a powerful portrait of a whole section of society which finds itself effectively beyond the reach of civilised intercourse, whether through its own hypersensitivity and frustration or from being excluded by society and harassed by the police.
Country: FR
Technical: bw 97m
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Saïd Taghmaoui
Synopsis:
Three disaffected youths from the Parisian 'banlieues' acquire a police firearm and embark on an odyssey through the capital, seething about the wounding of a friend in a civil disturbance. Despite their attempts to have a good time, every encounter leads only to defensiveness and confrontation.
Review:
A shocking indictment of life in the 'projects', highly formal in its filming but gritty in its profane, albeit poetically repetitious, dialogue and chaotic delivery. Spread over the course of a single day, it is a powerful portrait of a whole section of society which finds itself effectively beyond the reach of civilised intercourse, whether through its own hypersensitivity and frustration or from being excluded by society and harassed by the police.
Country: FR
Technical: bw 97m
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Saïd Taghmaoui
Synopsis:
Three disaffected youths from the Parisian 'banlieues' acquire a police firearm and embark on an odyssey through the capital, seething about the wounding of a friend in a civil disturbance. Despite their attempts to have a good time, every encounter leads only to defensiveness and confrontation.
Review:
A shocking indictment of life in the 'projects', highly formal in its filming but gritty in its profane, albeit poetically repetitious, dialogue and chaotic delivery. Spread over the course of a single day, it is a powerful portrait of a whole section of society which finds itself effectively beyond the reach of civilised intercourse, whether through its own hypersensitivity and frustration or from being excluded by society and harassed by the police.