La Haine [Sub: Eng]
When a young Arab is arrested and beaten unconscious by police, a riot erupts in the notoriously violent suburbs outside of Paris. The film follows 24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after.
17 November 1938, Budapest, Hungary
30 December 1970
17 April 1957, Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme, France
6 May 1978, Charenton-le-Pont, Val-de-Marne, France
3 August 1967, Paris, France
15 July 1959, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
20 December 1970, Cayenne, French Guyana, France
24 December 1938, Paris, France
10 October 1960, Paris, France
August 01, 2003
...powerful...
January 01, 2000
Hate is, I suppose, a Generation X film, whatever that means, but more mature and insightful than the American Gen X movies.
August 03, 2007
An inspired achievement from Mathieu Kassovitz.
January 01, 2000
All the performances are excellent, especially Cassel...
May 08, 2007
to get an inside view of the situation, there simply is no better source than Kassovitz's disturbing urban study
January 01, 2000
Writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz mines so much tension and pointed dialogue from a low budget and deceptively simple premise that you wonder why so much of current Hollywood's own social realism ends up shooting $50 million blanks.
September 08, 2014
Mathieu Kassovitz's gritty, documentary-like second film is a powerful comment on class and racial disparity.
August 19, 2004
One of the most blisteringly effective pieces of urban cinema ever made
August 21, 2012
The conveniently manufactured ending is a let-down, but the display of raw emotion and kinetic energy lingers with the viewer long after the film is over.
December 28, 2013
La Haine does not provide an easy answer. So you have to struggle intellectually for yourself.

