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La Haine (Hate)

La Haine (Hate) (1995)

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While to most outsiders Paris seems the very picture of beauty and civility, France has had a long and unfortunate history of intolerance toward outsiders, and this powerful drama from filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz takes an unblinking look at a racially diverse group of young people trapped in the Parisian economic and social underclass. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), who is Jewish, Hubert (Hubert Kounde), who is Black, and Said (Said Taghmaoui), who is Arabic, are young men from the lower rungs of the

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Apr 17, 2007

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All Critics (29) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (0) | DVD (15)

Writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz mines so much tension and pointed dialogue from a low budget and deceptively simple premise that you wonder why so much of current Hollywood's own social realism ends up shooting $50 million blanks.

January 1, 2000
USA Today
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Hate is, I suppose, a Generation X film, whatever that means, but more mature and insightful than the American Gen X movies.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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The conveniently manufactured ending is a let-down, but the display of raw emotion and kinetic energy lingers with the viewer long after the film is over.

August 21, 2012 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
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Mathieu Kassovitz's iconic film about race, violence, and class struggle is both rousing entertainment and brilliant filmmaking, beautifully redelivered in Criterion's new Blu-ray edition.

May 15, 2012 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

An inspired achievement from Mathieu Kassovitz.

August 3, 2007
ColeSmithey.com

by the end of its brisk and economic 97 minutes, you feel that you have been where the characters have been, breathed their air, and felt their pulse

May 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk
Q Network Film Desk

A groundbreaking portrait of life in the banlieu for young disaffected males

May 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Habit
Movie Habit

to get an inside view of the situation, there simply is no better source than Kassovitz's disturbing urban study

May 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Old School Reviews

One of the most blisteringly effective pieces of urban cinema ever made

August 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Times [UK]
Times [UK]

...powerful...

August 1, 2003 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
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Audience Reviews for La Haine (Hate)

Quite possibly Spike Lee's second best film - certainly his best in French.
April 12, 2007
brooklynspo

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I didn't expect this; what a pretentious film. The DVD cover proudly states how 'powerful' it is, and how it was a 'wake up call'. I'm sorry, this film about urban chaos has been done better many times, Taxi Driver being the first example that springs to mind. It's all been said before, but it's upon watching films like 'La Haine' that you truly realise what Robert De Niro created in that performance, his descent into madness totally consumes the viewer.

'La Haine' on the other hand has three leading characters, who, like the film itself, are quite frankly boring. There's no real depth to them, they're annoying, they're just three angry, bitter scumbags who can't function properly in decent social circles(with the exception of Hubert for the most part, however he can be just as bad, as showcased in the art gallery scene). The characters, especially Vincent Cassel's 'Vinz', quickly become tiresome. I'm afraid I'm all too familiar with these types, those playing the victim of society, moaning that they have no opportunities when they know full well that they could make something of themselves if they tried, they're just scared. People like that thrive off making a nuisance of themselves. However, that slightly sociological rant brings me onto some praise; I commend how accurately the characters are represented, but 90 minutes of these characters simply doesn't make for good viewing. Very little happens in 'La Haine', it relies on dialogue, and that certainly doesn't help it, it's no 'Pulp Fiction' in that respect. The narrative, much like its characters, is aimless, not good film making.

The only thing I'll remember about La Haine is its abrupt ending, which just serves as chronic bathos in my opinion. If the team responsible for this were aiming to recreate the dreary trials and tribulations of a few members of the Parisian underclass, they achieved admirably.
June 11, 2011
Jack Hawkins
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