La Haine (HD DVD) Reviews

La Haine is an excellent French film that focuses on the extreme racism that exists in French society and the problems France has with integrating those citizens from their former colonies with the ethnic French people. French cities are unusual when compared with those in the UK, in cities like London you find the poverty in the inner city areas ...  Read the complete review

La Haine is a powerful film in French cinematic history. Giving a stark outlook on racial inequality, police brutality and the way youths are influenced by their suuroundings. Set in the banlieues (town suburbs) of Paris, it follows three friends for a day, in the aftermath of riots that has left one of their number dead. Thirsty for ...  Read the complete review

French cinema is not to everyone's taste. There are times it doesn't do itself any favours, of course. At times, it tries too hard to be inaccessible, or controversial simply for the sake of it. It seems wrapped up in its own self absorption, closed off to all but the most dedicated cinema goers, who'll sit in some fleapit night after night ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room La Haine (hate) is an extremely powerful film about how life is in the banlieues (slums) in France. The French cities are set out such that, instead of the richer areas all being out in the countryside, it is the poorer areas that sit on the outskirts, all facing in at each ...  Read the complete review

La Haine or "The Hate" is a 1995 French film that, interestingly, is entirely in black and white. I only discovered the film recently though it was critically acclaimed at the time of its release. It is a touching yet violent film that depicts the reality of life in the Parisian suburbs. ~Plot~ The film is set over a ...  Read the complete review

La Haine is the story of a struggle in the suburbs of the city of love... o you thought that's all Paris is? well we are a long way from Amelie my friend. This film is hard, it hold back no punches and its aim is to shock, shot in gritty black and white La Haine is a symbol of what little hope was left in Paris during the time. This film is ...  Read the complete review

WHAT IS IT: La Haine is a French film - shot in black and white and released in 1995 - directed and written by Mathieu Kassovitz. It is in French with English subtitles and is around 90 minutes long. The film centres around 3 young men living on an impoverished housing estate in France. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), a French Jew, is full of rage at the ...  Read the complete review

This is one of my favourite French films of all time, the story of a troubled Paris estate and one day in the life of three young men from varying backgrounds through the course of that extraordinary day. Based on true events, this is a brutally powerful film, the perfomances are gritty, realistic and uncompromising. The setting is dark and bleak ...  Read the complete review

Overview The tale of three friends in a Paris housing estate shortly after a great riot which has rocked Paris. Review This is certainly not the sort of film I normally watch or would look to buy myself. Its good to have an open mind though. Often in life, its when you do something slightly out of the usual, something you ...  Read the complete review

Boy....Paris ain't all it's cracked up to be! Not if this film shows anything of the truth which I strongly suspect it does. Filmed in black and white documentary style director Mathieu Kassovitz captures the seething tensions of the rioting we have experienced several times around Paris on the news in recent years. Three characters, ...  Read the complete review

The French riots in November 2005 shocked the world, and brought the condition of the “banlieues”, or ghetto-like suburbs which exist in many of the country’s largest cities, to the top of France’s agenda. Whilst the violence was pretty shocking, the most shocking point is that these problems are nothing new, and that the government has just ...  Read the complete review

Bit of a change to my last review, this time, we are embarking on a much grittier topic… As some of you may have gathered from my title & the name of this film, this is a French film and is subtitled, but I will touch a bit more on this later, normally I do not focus on the fact that a film is subtitled and this does not make me ...  Read the complete review

Now before I start my review I'm going to pose a question to everyone. Have any of you ever watched a French film? This excludes ones you may have been forced to watch at school and the Emmanuelle series. If the answer to this is no, then allow me to enlighten you, if I may, with a knowing observation - Many French films are actually very ...  Read the complete review

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz Starring: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili, Solo Running time: 97 minutes Summed up in a sentence: Tension builds to a devastating climax in the Parisian suburbs. The bigger picture: Kassovitz's highly acclaimed film was re-released in ...  Read the complete review

Kassovitz’s La Haine follows roughly a day in the lives of three young men Vinz (Vincent Cassell), Said (Saïd Taghmaoui) and Hubert (Hubert Koundé). They all live in a depressing housing estate consisting of sterile tower blocks just outside of Paris. Tensions run high because the estate is basically a dumping ground for people on the bottom ...  Read the complete review

...This is what the billboard poster reads as Vinz, Siad and Hubert walk past it yet, one simple spray of a "v" to an "n" and the wolrd becomes thiers. The simple reason for this is that the film "La Haine" draws you into to world of the projects in Paris rather than let you glide elegantly between the Champs Eleisse ...  Read the complete review

La Haine opens with a shot of a Molotov cocktail falling in slow motion towards the earth and a voice-over is heard relating a joke about a man falling from a skyscraper repeating to himself “So far, so good…So far, so good”. This joke is retold at the end of the film, employing the dramatic technique of circular cohesion that is ...  Read the complete review

Probably the best film I've ever seen. Set in Paris in the 1990's this film is about racial minorities difficulties in France and police brutality. The film is in French with English subtitles but that almost serves to make you concentrate on the dialogue more which is no bad thing. The opening scenes are real footage of riots in ...  Read the complete review

LA HAINE - (Directed by Mattieu Kassowitz) This is such an incredible film. Please don’t be put off by the fact that the film is in French with English subtitles, it is such an amazing film and once you start watching, it is so compelling that you forget that you are reading subtitles. The opening few minutes mix real-life footage ...  Read the complete review