La Haine has lost none of its relevance and is a must-see in this current social climate of protest against police brutality. Kassovitz shows the borderline torture and sadism that can make two grown men cry. We’re here to protect you, says a policeman, but who’s here to protect us from you? In one of the most uncomfortable scenes of police brutality when they abuse their status of protection to strip away the humanity of their prisoner their victim, all because of their ethnicity and their preconceived judgements based on the colour of their skin.
There are no stereotypes here, second-generation immigrants are treated as individuals in their own right who are pushed to violence to get an eye for an eye after one of the residents in the estate is shot and killed by the police. It humanises far more than the voyeuristic journalists going on a poverty safari in the estate.īlack-blanc-beur, three categories that have come to define post-colonial France, but whose definitions are transgressed and blurred in La Haine. The French slang that fills the dialogue, the quirky anecdotes and storytelling, the weird cannabis-induced trips and the friendship and closeness of the three main characters uplifts and nourishes and inspires. Social malaise is at the core here, but that doesn’t mean it’s all grim hard-hitting scenes. The director, Mathieu Kassovitz, even has a small part in the film playing a racist skinhead who is beaten to a pulp, a world away from the quirky, romantic character he plays in Amelie.
Vinz (played by the magnificent Vincent Cassel) Saïd ( Saïd Taghmaoui), and Hubert (Hubert Koundé) egg each other on, pull each other back, sometimes protecting and sometimes harming each other with their impulses and ethos.
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It’s perfectly shot, full of energy and innovation, matched with a dialogue that is so natural it could be a documentary. Set during the riots in the outskirts of Paris in the ’90s, La Haine is a day in the life of three second-generation immigrant friends living in a housing project in the suburbs. It’s just as timely and fresh as when it was released 25 years ago, and is even more relevant with all of the accounts of police brutality that have given ammunition to world-wide Black Lives Matter protests. Comprising tees and hoodies, featuring either Gilles Favier’s on-set behind-the-scenes photographs or quotable lines from the film, as well as a Hubert-style beanie, it’s a fitting anniversary tribute to a film that remains very much in the here and now.Ĭarhartt x La Haine is available from and selected stores.La Haine remastered remains a ticking bomb, full of seething energy ready to explode. Though it can hardly be considered a cult film (it won Best Director at Cannes in 1995), its popularity bears all the hallmarks of one and Carhartt’s capsule is testament to that fact. Shot in black and white with an excellent score and a number of unforgettable scenes, La Haine has embedded itself within popular culture. The three main characters of Vinz, Saïd, and Hubert (played by Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaou) may have been fictitious but the lives they led and people they represented were anything but. Set against a near constant threat of violence, the film is both an insight into the festering social inequality that prevailed under Jacques Chirac in the 1990s and a more universal story of life on the peripheries, lost youth and urban disaffection. La Haine follows 24 hours in the life of three friends from the suburban banlieues of Paris.
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