The politics of the piece are confrontational, to say the least, but there is a maturity and depth to the characterisation which goes beyond mere agitprop: society may be on the point of self-combustion, but this film betrays no appetite for the explosion. Mathieu Kassovitz is a 29-year-old French director who in his first two films has probed the wound of alienation among Frances young outsiders.
He combats the inertia and boredom of his frustrated antagonists with a thrusting, jiving camera style which harries and punctuates their rambling, often very funny dialogue. La Haine Movie Poster, Mathieu Kassovitz, Vintage Retro Art Print, Minimalist Movie Poster, Custom Poster, Classic Movie poster CM231 hukuchi 5 out of 5 stars (7) Sale Price 11.38 11.38 14.23 Original Price 14.23' (20 off. Kassovitz has made only one film before (the droll race-comedy Métisse), but La Haine puts him right at the front of the field: this is virtuoso, on-the-edge stuff, as exciting as anything we've seen from the States in ages, and more thoroughly engaged with the reality it describes. They razz each other about films, cartoons, nothing in particular, but always the gun hovers over them like a death sentence, the black-and-white focal point for all the hatred they meet with, and all they can give back. Vinz hangs out with Hubert (Koundé) and Saïd (Taghmaoui). Twenty-four hours in the Paris projects: an Arab boy is critically wounded in hospital, gut-shot, and a police revolver has found its way into the hands of a young Jewish skinhead, Vinz (Cassel), who vows to even the score if his pal dies.