La Haine succeeds in its mission of articulating the anger felt by minority communities at their mistreatment.It also succeeds in highlighting the consequences of this hostility – more death, more violence, more discrimination. La Haine Synopsis: The film follows three young men and their time spent in the French suburban "ghetto," over a span of twenty-four hours. Learn faster with spaced repetition. Public restrooms are one of the all-time great movie settings, to the point where I could conceivably do a year’s worth of this column using such scenes exclusively. Culture > Film > Features La Haine at 25: The prophetic French classic whose message fell on deaf ears.

Back in 1995, Mathieu Kassovitz won Best Director at Cannes for his sophomore feature film La Haine, a bold in your face statement about the clash of cultures and youth in modern France, bolstered by its thumping French hip hop score, grimy black and white cinematography capturing the raw dialogue and performances from the likes of Vincent Cassel and Saïd Taghmaoui. Vinz, a Jew, Saïd, an Arab, and Hubert, a black boxer, have grown up in these French suburbs where high levels of diversity coupled with the racist and oppressive police force have raised tensions to a critical breaking point. The film follows three young men and their time spent in the French suburban "ghetto," over a span of twenty-four hours. Vinz is jewish, Hubert, black and Said, arab.The three protagonists live in a banlinue of Paris. 24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.

Study La Haine: End Scene flashcards from Alice Horn's class online, or in Brainscape's iPhone or Android app. I shall look at how he demonstrates to the audience all of the problems that are present in the banlieue. In brief, this film is about an approximate 20 hour period in the life of three friends from different ethnic backgrounds, living in close proximity of each other. There’s the commode story from Reservoir Dogs, Renton diving into the toilet in Trainspotting, Jerry Maguire begging a buck-naked Rod Tidwell to “help me help you,” the sink-straddling bit in Bridesmaids. La Haine ( translated to hate in English ) 1995. Showing all 5 items Jump to: Summaries (5) Summaries. La Haine (1995) Plot. 98min Written, directed and starring Matheiu Kassowitz. In this essay I shall be looking at how Kassovitz uses mise en scene, cinematography, editing and sound in his film La Haine (d. Kassovitz, 1995). In the eyes of its director, Mathieu Kassovitz, we should all have moved on by now.