France, 1995 / 98 Mins
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Said Taghmaoui, Francois Levantal, Edouard Montoute, Karim Belkhadra
Aimlessly spending their days in the concrete setting of their suburb, Vinz – a Jew, Hubert – an African, and Saïd – an Arab, give human faces to France’s immigrant populations. La Haine, a landmark of contemporary French cinema, is a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the “banlieue” districts in the outskirts of Paris. Subtitles.