Apart from all their jokes and bravado, the protagonists’ lives are overshadowed by threats from skinheads and racist power-abusing police. Structurally, La Haine is a collection of dramatic and comic episodes from a day in the lives of three hoodlums: encounters with the unstable and armed cocaine addict nicknamed Asterix and a very drunk man played by the star of French cinema Vincent Lindon the unforgettable story told by an old GULAG survivor in the men’s room an accidental visit to a contemporary art exhibition that ends in a class conflict… poetic moments, such as “I feel like an ant lost in intergalactic space” pronounced by Vinz.
La Haine won a Best Director award at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival for Mathieu Kassovitz and acclaim for the three leads: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, and Saïd Taghmaoui. “A cult thriller about the circle of violence filled with comedy and drama.”įollowing mass riots sparked by police violence in a Paris banlieue, three friends-Jewish (Vinz), North African (Saïd), and Afro-French (Hubert) immigrants-find a gun and take it into the city.
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