La Haine - 憎しみ
Mathieu Kassovitz (1995)
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TL;DR – An interesting idea and solid family dynamics, that unfortunately gets dragged out past its strong point.
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Rating: 3 out of 5.
Post-Credit Scene – There are mid-credit scenes.Disclosure – I paid for the Apple TV+ service that viewed this film.
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"How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land."
La haine (1995)
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Cinematography: Pierre Aïm
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Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, and Vincent Cassel in La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili, Solo, Joseph Momo, Héloïse Rauth, Rywka Wajsbrot, Olga Abrego, Laurent Labasse, Choukri Gabteni. Screenplay: Mathieu Kassovitz. Cinematography: Pierre Aïm. Production design: Giuseppe Ponturo. Film editing: Mathieu Kassovits, Scott Stevenson. Music: Assassin.
Would the friendship of the Jew, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), the African, Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and the Arab, Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui) be possible in the Parisian banlieus today? For that matter, was it in fact possible when writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz made La Haine in 1995? Or was it a symbolic construct to emphasize solidarity against the Establishment and the corrupt police force, somewhat like the ethnic stews of Italian-, Irish-, and Jewish-Americans (but never, sadly, African-Americans) that Hollywood filmmakers put on bomber crews and destroyers during World War II as a way of promoting solidarity against the enemy powers? The question is rhetorical, of course, and not designed to undermine the importance and brilliance of Kassovitz's terrific (and terrifying) film, made in response to outbreaks of violent protest in the poorer suburbs of Paris. It has the quality of some of the best neo-realist Italian films of the postwar years, with the additional sense of something about to erupt that pervades the film and has not dissipated in the 28 years since it was made. If anything, it has spread into the rest of the world, especially in the post-9/11 era. The trio of actors on whom the film mainly focuses is extraordinary, both individually and as an ensemble.
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