These main reasons for the rioting were excessive unemployment, inadequate housing, poor schooling and unresponsive political structure.The film is based on true events in the 1990’s, when social problems in France led to 10 straight nights of rioting throughout the country.The ZUP is in the suburbs of Paris, showing an aftermath of a riot, which helps to highlight the bad relationship between the police and the youth culture occupying the ZUP.The film looks at a single day in the life of three friends, from immigrant families living in a impoverished multi-ethnic French housing project called a ZUP (zone a urbaniser en prioritie).Black and white film, based around one day in the life of the three main protagonists.Stars: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde and Said Taghmaoui (Stars kept their first names for the characters).“An unmissable response to an unending emergency.- E N D - Presentation Transcript
“One of the most nuanced and technically accomplished treatments of race, violence, and the politics of assimilation in recent cinema.” – Slant Magazine “One of the most blisteringly effective pieces of urban cinema ever made.” – The Times “raw, vital and captivating” – Los Angeles Times Few films in recent memory have sparked more heated discussions.” Richard Peña, series curator: “Mathieu Kassovitz’s stylish and controversial chronicle of a long day and even longer night follows three friends as they travel from their familiar banlieue to the increasingly hostile streets of Paris. Their bristling resentment at their marginalization simmers until it reaches a climactic boiling point.Ī rough-hewn work of beauty, La Haine is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis. 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 banlieues on the outskirts of Paris.Īimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of a dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)-a Jew, African, and Arab-personify France’s immigrant populations. Winner of Three César Awards including Best Film Winner of Best Director Award at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival
With Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili
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