It captured a young generation on the brink, caught between French culture and that of their parents, and in love with American rap music and cinema. The film, written and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, had a huge impact when released in 1995 because of both its content and form. La Haine is recommended by the Studium Generale Film Committee because of both the social issues it tackles, which are still relevant today, and the (now classic) style of black and white cinematography. The tension builds as the film follows this mixed-race young male trio from a run-down banlieue across 24 hours. The film has ever since inspired audiences all over the world.Vinz, Saïd and Hubert are furious when their friend Abdel, an Arab youth from a Parisian banlieue, is arrested and so badly beaten by cops that he ends up in the hospital fighting for his life. La Haine was not only a dazzling, urban, raw piece of art, it was also the first time the banlieu was portrayed in cinema and the first time its inhabitants were given a voice. When their friend Abdel ends up in the hospital after being heavily beaten up by the police in one of the frequent riots – in which he did not take place – Vinz makes it his mission to avenge him. Together with his best friends Vinz (Vincent Cassel) – an angry Eastern European Jew – and kind-hearted North Africa Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui), who serves as a kind of mediator between the other two, they stroll the gloomy torrid streets aimlessly, joking and talking. It is spoken by Hubert (Hubert Koundé), a philosophical, pacifistic, Afro-French boxer who dreams of a better life outside of the banlieues of Paris. “La haine attire la haine!” (Hatred breeds hatred!) is the line from which the title of the film derives. It was also the year in which Mathieu Kassovitz took the world by storm with his second documentary-like feature film La Haine with which he answered the year ‘95 even before it ended.
Paris 1995 was a year that went into history as one of the darkest in France, because of its violent riots, shootings and bomb attacks linked (but never confirmed) to the Algerian war.
You’ll find drinks, popcorns, Tony Chocolonely chocolate, and cake for sale. Doors open at 20:00, the film starts at 20:30
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