
It’s a prophecy riots continue in France between the disenfranchised and the police. It’s a lesson Alain Juppe who was then prime minister watched the film with his cabinet. It mimics what happens in France in the streets. Hubert wants to stay calm and make it out of the suburbs. Saïd, Vinz and Hubert speak endlessly of him. The teen in the hospital, Abdel Ichaha, is the headline that haunts the film. La Haine feels like the characters are on the Titanic with an iceberg below the surface about to hit. Men sit on the roof, roasting hot dogs and playing music, anything to pass the time. In La Haine there is brutality and friendship, idleness and ingenuity. They hot-wire a car, but they don’t know how to drive. When they venture into Paris the last train leaves at midnight, and they are left stranded at the station. The gym where Hubert trains as a boxer is burned down during a riot. Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui), Vinz (Vincent Cassel), and Hubert (Hubert Koundé) live in a suburb cut off from Paris like an amputated limb. They are seen as mobs, rioters, or looters, as not belonging. They have no employment and no cafes, art galleries, jazz clubs, or museums.

systems, about the lack of opportunity for people who live in public housing. The victim, Abdel Ichaha, is still in critical condition.” The screen goes black as the TV is turned off. A mob of youths attacked the police station in the Muguet projects.” Her voice brings us into the story of the film, “Two days ago a local teen was severely beaten while in custody. A newscaster narrates, “Riots rocked the project late into the night. La Haine opens with a montage of real riots between the French police and the people who live in the banlieues. In this way the audience is part of the characters’ journey.

The music heard in the film is being listened to in the film. La Haine (1995) does not have a soundtrack. La Haine (1995) film notes by Tova Gannana for Faraway Entertainment 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.

Aimlessly passing 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 marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. 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 banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts.
