A lesson in antihero fashion, the film's multiple styles are more resonant today than ever before. Shot in black and white, La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film, follows the listless routine of three friends over a 19-hour period. They are Hubert, a black boxer with a strong moral code, Saïd, the naive son of Algerians, and Vinz, a working-class Jew with a temper; all born in France of immigrant parents, all living on a housing project and all deeply embittered by the way society has treated...
A lesson in antihero fashion, the film's multiple styles are more resonant today than ever before. Shot in black and white, La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film, follows the listless routine of three friends over a 19-hour period. They are Hubert, a black boxer with a strong moral code, Saïd, the naive son of Algerians, and Vinz, a working-class Jew with a temper; all born in France of immigrant parents, all living on a housing project and all deeply embittered by the way society has treated...
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