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Overview
Release Date:
23 February 1996 (USA) moreTagline:
Three Young Friends... One Last Chance.Plot:
Abdel, a local hoodlum, is hospitalized after a riot, where a policeman lost his gun. His friend Vinz finds it and claims he will kill a cop if Abdel dies. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
8 wins & 11 nominations moreUser Comments:
Hate Begets Hate moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Vincent Cassel | ... | Vinz | |
| Hubert Koundé | ... | Hubert | |
| Saïd Taghmaoui | ... | Saïd | |
| Abdel Ahmed Ghili | ... | Abdel | |
| Solo | ... | Santo | |
| Joseph Momo | ... | Ordinary Guy | |
| Héloïse Rauth | ... | Sarah | |
| Rywka Wajsbrot | ... | Vinz's Grandmother | |
| Olga Abrego | ... | Vinz's Aunt | |
| Laurent Labasse | ... | Cook | |
| Choukri Gabteni | ... | Saïd's Brother | |
| Nabil Ben Mhamed | ... | Boy Blague | |
| Benoît Magimel | ... | Benoît | |
| Medard Niang | ... | Médard | |
| Arash Mansour | ... | Arash |
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96 minCountry:
FranceLanguage:
FrenchColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Australia:MA | Iceland:14 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Australia:M (TV rating) | Norway:15 | New Zealand:R18 | New Zealand:R16 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:12 (bw) | Portugal:M/18 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | Netherlands:16MOVIEmeter: 
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In some English language versions the name Asterix has been changed to Snoopy, as the film traveled further than the Asterix books did. moreQuotes:
Hubert: Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good. How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land! moreSoundtrack:
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Reminiscent of Costas-Gavras' film Z with its rapid-fire dialogue and staccato rhythms, La Haine (Hate) directed by 28 year-old Mathieu Kassovitz, is a passionate look at racial tensions at a Paris housing project. Although drug dealing, urban decay, and police brutality have been shown in films before, rarely have they had the sense of vitality and urgency shown in La Haine.
Three friends from different ethnic backgrounds live in the Bluebell housing projects on the outskirts of Paris. This is not the Paris of travel brochures or films like Amelie, but a desolate urban landscape, harsh and grim with housing projects that look as if they could be in any big city in the world. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), is a working class Jew; Hubert (Hubert Kounde), the most intelligent and self-reflective of the three, is an African boxer; and Said (Said Taghmaoui), an Arab from North Africa is younger but just as embittered.
The film depicts their rage against the police whom they see as oppressors. Marginalized economically and politically, without jobs, parents who care, or hope for the future, the streets are their home and they are open targets for police who are shown as brutal and racist. In one startling scene, a veteran cop taunts and physically abuses Said and Hubert while training a rookie cop. The rookie can only look on and shake his head in disbelief.
Shot in black and white, La Haine shows a single day in the lives of the three friends. Following a major riot in which a local teenager, Abdel, is critically wounded by the police, Vinz, the most volatile of the group, vows that if Abdel dies he will kill a cop to get even. Hubert wants to restrain him, and Said doesn't seem to care either way, as long as he can get his money from a drug dealer named Snoopy. When Vinz finds a Smith & Wesson 44 lost by the police during the riots, the spiral of violence escalates and builds toward a memorable conclusion.
La Haine does not offer any solutions to social problems but clearly shows the anger and frustration of people who feel trapped by their circumstances. In its depiction of a society in free-fall, it also has immediacy. Three weeks after the film was released, riots broke out in the Brixton section of London, following the death of a young black man in police custody. Though it is a wake-up call for action on society's growing gap between rich and poor, La Haine makes a powerful statement that violence does not solve anything and that hate begets hate. Someone should pass the word to a few of the world leaders.