La Haine

Name: La Haine
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Genre: Drama
Released: 1995
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 8.1

How far you fall doesn't matter, it's how you land…

1995·Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz·4.3·1h 38m

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Drama France

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

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“This was the film. This was the thing you got together like on a Saturday afternoon, you drank a few beers, and you just watched this thing over and over again.”

Barry Jenkins

Director, Writer

“It is a beautiful film made by my friend Mathieu Kassovitz. I fell in love with the film.”

Jodie Foster

Actor, Director

“It was the world I knew, but at the same time it was in black and white and there was an artistic approach that hit me.”

Artist

“That movie—it hasn't aged. It's just a masterpiece. It still speaks to what's happening in France today.”

Cillian Murphy

Actor

“Just completely pulled me just how stylishly it's shot. There's so many sequences I can think about now that are just like themselves such bravora moments.”