STAR RATINGS EXPLAINED

Classic

Excellent

Good

Fair

Tragic

FILM DETAILS

Certificate 15

Cast Vincent Cassel Hubert Kounde Said Taghmaoui Abdel Ahmed Ghili

Directors Mathieu Kassovitz

Screenwriters Mathieu Kassovitz

Running Time 97 minutes

La Haine (15)

Plot
Three friends - Vinz, Said and Hubert - meet the morning after a riot sparked by the injury in police custody of a young man from their neighbourhood. While the three kill time, the violence of the previous night threatens to well up again.

Verdict
Stark, exquisite black-and-white photography drains what little cheer there is out of the concrete jungle, creating an alien cityscape devoid of sunshine. But Mathieu Kassovitz's triumph is in finding humanity in every single one of his characters, whether its the three friends, a sympathetic policeman or an old man they encounter in a restroom.


Reviewer: Alan Morrison

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