Kassovitz frames the story in 24 frenetic hours, shoots with a handheld camera in grainy black-and-white, and cuts rapidly from scene to scene and shot to shot, using jarring intertitles to situate the audience. With a stolen cop’s gun and a bottomless well of hatred among them, they set about finding the policeman and teaching him a lesson. One of the most eagerly anticipated films of the festival, La Haine is a brutal, searing indictment of urban strife and police brutality seen through the eyes of a band of teens bent on violence.Īfter a 16-year-old boy is savagely beaten by the police, his housing project pals (Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde and Said Taghmaoui), fed up with police brutality, decide to take their revenge on the system. The film has ever since inspired audiences all over the world.Ten years ago, aged 25, director Mathieu Kassovitz emerged with La Haine to become one of the most celebrated young filmmakers of recent years, his debut feature capturing the directing prize at Cannes. La Haine was not only a dazzling, urban, raw piece of art, it was also the first time the banlieu was portrayed in cinema and the first time its inhabitants were given a voice.
When their friend Abdel ends up in the hospital after being heavily beaten up by the police in one of the frequent riots – in which he did not take place – Vinz makes it his mission to avenge him. Together with his best friends Vinz (Vincent Cassel) – an angry Eastern European Jew – and kind-hearted North Africa Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui), who serves as a kind of mediator between the other two, they stroll the gloomy torrid streets aimlessly, joking and talking. It is spoken by Hubert (Hubert Koundé), a philosophical, pacifistic, Afro-French boxer who dreams of a better life outside of the banlieues of Paris. “La haine attire la haine!” (Hatred breeds hatred!) is the line from which the title of the film derives. It was also the year in which Mathieu Kassovitz took the world by storm with his second documentary-like feature film La Haine with which he answered the year ‘95 even before it ended. Paris 1995 was a year that went into history as one of the darkest in France, because of its violent riots, shootings and bomb attacks linked (but never confirmed) to the Algerian war. You’ll find drinks, popcorns, Tony Chocolonely chocolate, and cake for sale.
Doors open at 20:00, the film starts at 20:30
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