La Haine
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz Run Time: 98 min. Release Year: 1995 Language: French w/ English subtitles
Starring: Abdel Ahmed Ghili, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Souleymane Dicko, Vincent Cassel
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Tagline: Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing 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 marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches 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.
Critic Quotes: “What you remember most about La Haine isn’t its technique, but its powerhouse emotional punch: It’s a stunner.” – Miami Herald
“La Haine is an unmissable response to an unending emergency.” – Guardian
“One of the most blisteringly effective pieces of urban cinema ever made.” – Times (UK)
Showtimes:
Tuesday, August 29, 2023: 7:00
Ticket Prices: $10.00 (No discounts/passes)
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/463499045