La Haine (DVD)

...the Plot. ~Plot~ La Haine follows a day in the life of three banlieusards*, Vinz (Jew), Saïd (Beur**) & Hubert (African). They are your typical banlieusards, drop outs, small time dealers & the rest of the trappings that come with this sort of lifestyle. There have been riots on their estate and one of their friends is in a coma in hospital, after being beaten, whilst in police custody. Vinz finds une flingue (police revolver) & swears that if ...
...title of the film - La Haine, French for Hate (a pretty strong word don't you think?), oh and the title of my review "Baise La Police", this phrase was being scribbled on the back of a police van in one of the early scenes of the film and translates to er….hmmm…… the police (you get the general idea). *Banlieusards - those living in Les Banlieues, which translates in English to suburbs, the only problem is that suburbs tend ...

tazzywazzy 21.03.2007 · Read full review
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...problem came eerily true. La Haine tells the story of three friends, all aged about 17 – one white Jewish guy, Vinz (Vincent Cassel); one Arab, Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui); and one black African, Hubert (Hubert Koundé). The film starts with archive footage of riots in Paris, and once the film begins, we learn that one of their friends, Abdel, has been seriously injured and hospitalised after being attacked by a policeman. They react in different ways ...
...immigrant population in the suburbs, La Haine is a raw, explosive film. Whilst the director’s anger at the situation is obvious, he doesn’t let the film turn into a simple good kids vs evil police story. Both sides are portrayed as brash and provocative, and Vinz in particular is deluded, violent and at times a total idiot. At the start, I’d thought that the characters would seem distant and unsympathetic to me, but the director creates just the ...

l-m-n-o-p 24.06.2007 · Read full review
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WHAT IS IT: La Haine is a French film - shot in black and white and released in 1995 - directed and written by Mathieu Kassovitz. It is in French with English subtitles and is around 90 minutes long. The film centres around 3 young men living on an impoverished housing estate in France. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), a French Jew, is full of rage at the injustices he is subjected to and the constant state of tension between the police and local youths in ...
...but of Moroccan/Algerian/Tunisian/Libyan/Mauritanian descent) who shares Vinz's dislike of the police but tries to keep the peace between everyone. Hubert is an Afro-French boxer and drug dealer who is philosophical about the situation he sees around him even when his gym gets burnt down during the riots. He suspects Vinz may have been involved and finds his aggressive attitude irritating. When a friend of the young men is put into a coma as a result ...

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...is certainly the case with La Haine. It premiered at the 1995 Cannes film festival were it won the best film prize before going on to win numerous other awards. These often seem to be prizes for grittiness to me, who can make the obscurest, least enticing film idea wins the prize. I suppose this is the case with La Haine. So what I'm apparantly saying is despite winning these awards this is still a good film. La Haine follows three young men; Vinz ...
...describe what tangible factor makes La Haine so fresh and enjoyable to watch. On face value it certainly doesn't sound as such. But the characters and events are all so starkly believable that you find yourself really caring about what happens to them. La Haine has so much going against it: its French, its in French, its in black and white, its called La Haine what does that mean, and err its French. Despite all this and I suspect to an extent because ...

thegoldencat 23.11.2008 · Read full review
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