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Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris's outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Kounde), and Said (Said Taghmaoui) -- a Jew, an African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country's ongoing identity crisis.
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La Haine is pretty good. Although overall it is a serious subject matter, I was surprised by how much humor is actually in the movie. It's well worth checking out.
Awakening was the best in the series, I´ll watch it again soon.
Its funny how the vow its on blu ray in the US, but it recently hit theaters in my country. Studios need to work in this stuff if they dont want piracy. But who cares, we are kind of a little market for movies anyway.
La Haine is a classic, definately worth a watch.