Kassovitz, Mathieu.

La haine [DVD] / a film by Mathieu Kassovitz. - [London] : StudioCanal & Optimum Releasing, 1995-2004. - 1 videodisc (93 mins.) : sd., b&w, col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Includes 'After the Riot' and essay on La Haine by Keith Reader. Record updated 2572016.

Produced by Christopeh Rossignon. Produced by Christopeh Rossignon.

Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui.

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.


DVD.

Winner of Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival.


Haine (Motion picture : 1995)


Minorities--Drama.--France--Paris
Crime and race--Paris--Drama.--France
Social structure--Paris--Drama.--France