![]() ![]() ![]() This murder provided the catalyst for Kassovitz’s landmark second feature and Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui are the close-knit jewish, black and arabic trio of pals at the raging heart of the film.Īn alternative tricolore, a triptych of marginalised, and frequently demonised, constituents of French society, they are pushed to breaking point after a night of rioting sees one of their contemporaries gravely wounded by the police. History has repeated itself many times, both in France and elsewhere, since the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Makomé M’Bowole in police custody in April 1993. It’s a quarter of a century since La Haine‘s original release, its win for Best Director at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival and its stunning worldwide acclaim. Mathieu Kassovitz’s account of police brutality is as ferocious a punch in the stomach as it was twenty-five years ago, and retains every spark of an explosive deconstruction of France’s treatment of minorities and widening social inequality.ĭriven to fear, misunderstanding and ultimately hatred by a society engaged in a civil war of abuse and mutual disrespect, neither side of the ‘them’ and ‘us’ divide has any hope for a peaceable resolution. ![]()
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