La Haine (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains strong language, violence and drug use
- Run time: 1 hour 34 mins
- Language: French
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 20th August 2004
- Starring: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Said Taghmaoui
- Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
- Distributor: Optimum Releasing
Plot Synopsis
Shot in cinema verité style, this film follows a day in the life of three aimless, violence-prone, ethnically-diverse young men who hail from the same decaying housing project in Paris.
Vinz, who is Jewish, is the angriest and the least intelligent of the three. North African Said is calmer, but is the most despairing about his future. Hubert is Black, and the most mature, channeling his rage through boxing. Although the trio seethes with fury over the arrest and senseless beating of an Arab friend, each manages to keep the other in check. But that changes after Vinz finds a loaded gun -- and the trio becomes entangled with the police, and later a group of skinheads.
"Has lost none of its punch" Empire Magazine