#381: KASSOVITZ, Mathieu: La Haine (1995)
KASSOVITZ, Mathieu (France)
Deleted and extended scenes
La Haine [1995]
Spine #381
DVD
DVD
When he was just twenty-nine years old, Mathieu Kassovitz took the international film world by storm with La Haine (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically in the low-income banlieue districts on Paris's outskirts. Aimlessly whiling away 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 social 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.
97 minutes
Black & White
Black & White
Stereo
in French
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2007
Director/Writer
Mathieu Kassovitz was 28 when he wrote and directed La Haine.
The Film
The Film
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Twenty-six page booklet featuring essays by Ginette Vincendeau and filmmaker Costa-Gavras.
Commentary
By Kassovitz.
Video introduction
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The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twenty-six page booklet featuring essays by Ginette Vincendeau and filmmaker Costa-Gavras.
Commentary
By Kassovitz.
Video introduction
By Jodie Foster
Ten Years of La Haine
Ten Years of La Haine
A documentary that brings together key cast and crew a decade after the film’s landmark release.
Video featurette
Video featurette
On the film’s banlieue setting, including interviews with sociologists Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jeffrey Fagan, and William Kornblum.
Behind-the-scenes footage
Behind-the-scenes footage
Deleted and extended scenes
With video afterwords by Kassovitz.
Stills gallery
Stills gallery
Of behind-the-scenes photos
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