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Manufacturer: Criterion
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Saïd Taghmaoui, Hubert Koundé, Benoît Magimel, Francois Toumarkine
Directed By: Mathieu Kassovitz
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0715515023023
Format: Black & White
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-04-17
Running Time: 97
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1996-02-23
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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, Hubert, and Saïd—a Jew, an African, and an Arab—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentments at their social marginalization slowly simmering until they reach 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.
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Summary: It matters how you land
Comment: The film's black and white filming assumes an appropriate grittiness. So too the semi-documentary flavour. That violence breeds violence is the despairing story of the depressing society of the housing estates. Kassovitz's film follows three young men through twenty-four hours. If the film has lost none of its punch since the mid 90s it is probably due to the reality of those continuing conditions. Racial intolerance and police brutality, the government's reaction to the malaise have only intensified. I felt the sudden zooms were effective and the closeups on the three leads facilitated the message. I like d the scale of the figures against the urabn settings, the stations, the flickering screens, the massive public sculture. The explicit violence is familiar to me. I live in a racially divided town. Police intervention on the streets and the neighbourhood are commonplace. Though the civil diturbances, erupting out of langour and hopelessness, are not as seething, a bomb ticking, as per La Haine. From my tangent, the film was, if anything, a bit soft.
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Summary: Powerful Stuff
Comment: In many ways, this powerful movie is like a Chekhov story where the mere presence of a gun requires its use. The story follows three young men the day after a riot in a French ghetto where the racial tension and police tension is not merely hiding under the surface, but always present. Without going into many details, the movie is a powerful statement about racial identity and the power struggles that are embedded in society. My French has been deteriorating for years, but even if it hadn't, I would have needed the subtitles since much of the language is slang. Everything about the movie seemed very real and the ending will haunt you for days.
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Summary: The French "Do the right thing"
Comment: A film that created massive controversy when it first came out (When it was shown the local police turned their backs on the cast as protest) This film is something of a French answer to the Spike Lee film "Do the right thing."
Set in a Paris suburb a young man is in hospital suffering from serious injury inflicted during a riot the night before. Three young men, one a white Jew, the other an Arab and the third a Black live in the same suburb. One of them discovers a gun that was recovered during the riots, concealing it on him while they take a trip through Paris (One of them states that he will kill a policeman if they young lad in hospital dies of his injuries)
The film depicts the dark desperation and alienation of young people living in the Parisian suburbs far away from the wealth and luxury that we usually associate with Paris. They live with unemployment, gangs,drugs and social isolation. What is interesting though is in spite of this they still share a common theme in spite of race or religion. It is always remarked that the working lass communities are where real racial integration is to be found and this film depicts just that.
There trip to the city confronts them with not only racism but also mistreatment by the Police. The film ends with a violent and sad conclusion that may leave you angry and as desperate as the characters portrayed in the film.
Shot in black and white this adds to the stark surroundings of where the young men lived. The camera work is excellent especially the panoramic view of the suburb while the song "Sound of the police" by BDP rings out.
Well worth watching.
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Summary: Who's Gun is it Anyway?
Comment: Call me crazy but La Haine is a masterpiece. Absorbing, shocking, funny, attractive, absurd, frightening-all apply here. Though I watched it 12 years after it was released, it is not dated in the least (a quality enough to differentiate it from 95% of film). But that is not it's mere characteristic.
The performances of three pals from a banlieue (French housing project/ghetto/suburb) are verty exciting: fun, natural, edgy, caring. The cinematography ranges from arching overheard tracking shots to framed photgraph-like set-ups maximizing the environment's complex nature; then shakey, viscerally charged in-the-mix and jangly visions of street life and it's daily violence, and in black and white, using shadows and gray's to highlight the beauty and the sadness of these guy's lives. The music is wonderful, American Hip-Hop's global influence all the more validated.
The socio-political scope of La Haine is staggering. Precient and current, Mathieu Kassovitz's knowledge and bravery in expressing the teaming stresses of the French immigrant underclass again remind that artists foretell coming storms, issues, ideas.
La Haine belongs to the Criterion Collection's mandate of important films. See it and know what I mean.
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Summary: Hip Hop, France, and Viva La Revolution!
Comment: My all time top 5 movie. Great cinematography, story, and urban French hip hop depiction. Must see... enough said. Oooo and its filmed in black and white.
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