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381 La haine
La haine
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. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—Jewish, African, and Arab, respectively—give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of 1990s French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country's ongoing identity crisis.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital master, supervised by director of photography Pierre Aïm and approved by director Mathieu Kassovitz, with 2.0 and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary by Kassovitz
• Introduction by actor Jodie Foster
• Ten Years of "La haine," a documentary featuring cast and crew members
• Featurette on the film's banlieue setting
• Production footage
• Deleted and extended scenes, with an afterword by Kassovitz
• Behind-the-scenes photos
• Trailers
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 2006 appreciation by filmmaker Costa-Gavras
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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. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—Jewish, African, and Arab, respectively—give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of 1990s French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country's ongoing identity crisis.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital master, supervised by director of photography Pierre Aïm and approved by director Mathieu Kassovitz, with 2.0 and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary by Kassovitz
• Introduction by actor Jodie Foster
• Ten Years of "La haine," a documentary featuring cast and crew members
• Featurette on the film's banlieue setting
• Production footage
• Deleted and extended scenes, with an afterword by Kassovitz
• Behind-the-scenes photos
• Trailers
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 2006 appreciation by filmmaker Costa-Gavras
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Looks like criterion finally listened to my persistent (some would say disturbed) suggestions that they get La Haine.
This, right after I had a friend burn the R2 dvd onto a bootleg for me. I was seriously hoping criterion would get the rights to this one, and I'm thrilled. La Haine is a great movie.
This, right after I had a friend burn the R2 dvd onto a bootleg for me. I was seriously hoping criterion would get the rights to this one, and I'm thrilled. La Haine is a great movie.
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Yes. The film is set the day after riots in the banlieux, the suburbs primarily populated by minorities. There's a great deal of simmering resentment toward cops, which leads to violence more than once in the film.Tribe wrote:I've heard of this, but never knew anything about it. I gather, from what little I've read on the net since the announcement of this that it's somewhat "prophetic" in relation to the French riots of the past year or so? Without giving too much away...any commentary about this movie?
As I understand it, then-President Francois Mitterand showed this film to his Cabinet and said "Unless we do something, this will happen for real." It took almost ten years, but he was right.
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my understanding was that this was happening already, or probably intensely felt, by the Paris suburbs at the time (or for any lower-class suburbs in the world). that's how i saw it, anyway. nothing prophetic about it à -la-Banlieue (which i also loved), just a reflection of the times by a young filmmakers.
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OK. I wish Criterion would announce Kassovitz's other masterpiece next.
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