La Haine (Criterion Collection) - DVD

Acclaimed, no-holds-barred drama follows four troubled Paris youths through a 24-hour period. While one of the quartet of friends lies in a hospital after being beaten in a riot, his three cronies-one an Arab, one black, and one Jewish-cruise their grimy neighborhood, try to score drugs, and get into trouble with police. Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé star; written and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. 97 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack French DTS HD 5.1 Master Audio; Subtitles English; audio commentary; documentary; featurette; photo gallery; more. In French with English subtitles.

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Mathieu Kassovitz (THE CRIMSON RIVERS) took the film world by storm with LA HAINE (HATE), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieues on Paris' outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (IRREVERSIBLEs Vincent Cassel), Hubert (THE CONSTANT GARDENERS Hubert Koundi), and Saod (THREE KINGS Saod Taghmaoui) - white, black, and Arab - give human faces to France's immigrant and otherwise marginalized populations, their resentment at their situation simmering until it reaches a boiling point. A work of tough beauty, LA HAINE is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of it's country's ongoing identity crisis.