Stars: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Said Taghmaoui

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Summary: A day in the life of three teenagers from a poor housing estate in Paris. Their lives are changed forever when one of their friends is beaten into a coma by the local police. French dialogue with subtitles.

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. Mathieu Kassovitz won the Best Director prize for LA HAINE at the Cannes Film Festival.

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La Haineis an angry, anti-authoritarian French film that concerns three young guys (a Jew, an Arab, a black) who decide to take on the police after a friend is brutally beaten. There isn't much going on in this black and white drama beyond its violence (which can be pretty hard to watch, such as an interrogation scene that incorporates torture) and gritty observations of wayward youths hanging out on the fringes of Paris. Certainly, there isn't much in the way of insight, and director Mathieu Kassovitz seems to have absorbed more of the excesses of America's independent film scene, especially Spike Lee at his most indulgent, than its blessings. But if it's edge and rawness you want, this has it--with subtitles. --Tom Keogh

Main Language:	French
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Director Commentary, Scenes In Colour, Behind The Scenes Footage
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1995
Release Date:	September 27, 2004
Runtime:	98 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	O P T D 0107
Keywords:	Special, Action, Subtitled, General, Edition, French, Hate, La, Adventure, Haine
Genre:	Action/Adventure