Friday May 8th, 7:30 PM
When a young Arab is arrested and beaten unconscious by police in Paris, a riot erupts in the notoriously violent Parisian suburbs. Vinz, a Jew, Saïd, an Arab, and Hubert, a black boxer, have grown up here where high levels of diversity coupled with the racist and oppressive police force have raised tensions to a critical breaking point. They wander aimlessly about their home turf in the aftermath of the violence as they try to come to grips with their outrage over the brutal incident. After one of them finds a police officer’s discarded weapon, their night seems poised to take a bleak turn. La Haine (Hatred) was nominated for the Palm D’Or at Cannes, and its director Mathieu Kassovitz won the Best Director award there. Kassovitz’s triumph is in finding humanity in every single one of his characters. Hard-hitting and breathtakingly effective, La Haine takes an uncompromising look at long-festering social and economic divisions affecting 1990s Paris.
Drama
Runtime 1 hour 38 min
France
1995
14A