Recommendations of the Editorial team
With his premiere at the film festival in Cannes, “La Haine” (hate) hit like a bomb. A film was so raw and directly that the reality of the French reserves of the French reserves authentically and unadorned, has never been seen here. Now he comes on August 6th, 30 years later, Once again in a 4K version in selected cinemas.
Right at the beginning it is apodictic: “This is the story of a man who falls from the 50th floor of a high -rise building. While he falls, he repeats, to calm down, again and again: ‘It was going quite well until here, it was still quite good, until here it went quite well …’ but it is not the case, but the landing!”
The film tells 24 hours in the life of three young men – Vinz, Saïd and Hubert; A Jew, an Arab and a black – after an escalated police operation. What begins like a classic drama quickly becomes the image of a powder barrel in which every second is. It is about fainting, pride and desperate search for respect.
Violence and hip -hop in the Banlieues
“La Haine”, who could only be turned with his male black and white pictures so much because the actors and the crew also lived there during the filming and clearly described their concerns in the area, put their fingers in the wound. Social exclusion, racism, police violence, the long-term image of the burning Banlieues-all of this can be found in Kassovitz ’24-hour study in a compacted and pressing form.
The film became a cult solely because of its breathtaking style of staging with dynamic camera rides (toilet scene!) A hip-hop soundtrack that only made many the music of the French rappers known. Against La Haine ”,“ Do the Right Thing ”(1989) by Spike Lee, such as“ Taxi Driver ”(1976), has a clear model, almost tame and brazen.
The anger is not played: the script was created in response to the death of the youthful Makomé M’Bowolé in police custody. While “La Haine” almost anticipated the further priority violence in France, he generally discloses the global perspective of young men who don’t see themselves as part of the system or as anarchists, but feel excluded and left behind.
While Quentin Tarantino calls “La Haine” as one of his favorites, his influence can be felt in many other films, including “City of God” (2002) and “Les Misérables” (2019). The Kassovitz aesthetics can still be found in the Netflix series “Top Boy” (2011) and the clan saga “4 Blocks” (2017).
“La Haine” is one of the most important European films of the 90s. Anyone who sees him will look into the world differently.