La haine
Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—Jewish, African, and Arab, respectively—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of 1990s French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital master, supervised by director of photography Pierre Aïm and approved by director Mathieu Kassovitz, with 2.0 and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary by Kassovitz
- Introduction by actor Jodie Foster
- Ten Years of “La haine,” a documentary featuring cast and crew members
- Featurette on the film’s banlieue setting
- Production footage
- Deleted and extended scenes, with afterwords by Kassovitz
- Behind-the-scenes photos
- Trailers
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 2006 appreciation by filmmaker Costa-Gavras
Cover by Neil Kellerhouse
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital master, supervised by director of photography Pierre Aïm and approved by director Mathieu Kassovitz, with 2.0 and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary by Kassovitz
- Introduction by actor Jodie Foster
- Ten Years of “La haine,” a documentary featuring cast and crew members
- Featurette on the film’s banlieue setting
- Production footage
- Deleted and extended scenes, with afterwords by Kassovitz
- Behind-the-scenes photos
- Trailers
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 2006 appreciation by filmmaker Costa-Gavras
Cover by Neil Kellerhouse
Cast
- Vincent Cassel
- Vinz
- Hubert Koundé
- Hubert
- Saïd Taghmaoui
- Saïd
- Karim Belkhadra
- Samir
- Edouard Mountoute
- Darty
- François Levanthal
- Astérix
- Abdel Ahmed Ghili
- Abdel
- Solo
- Santo
- Joseph Momo
- Ordinary guy
- Héloïse Rauth
- Sarah
- Rywka Wajsbrot
- Vinz’s grandmother
- Olga Abrego
- Vinz’s aunt
- Mathilde Vitry
- Journalist
- Félicité Wouassi
- Hubert's mother
- Fatou Thioune
- Hubert's sister
- Cut Killer
- DJ
- Julie Mauduech
- Gallery girl no. 1
- Karin Viard
- Gallery girl no. 2
- Peter Kassovitz
- Gallery patron
- Christophe Rossignon
- Taxi driver
- Vincent Lindon
- Drunk man
- Tadek Lokcinski
- Old man in restroom
- Choukri Gabteni
- Nordine
- Nabil Ben Mhamed
- Sam
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Young skinhead
- Marc Duret
- Inspector “Notre Dame”
- Philippe Nahon
- Police chief
- Zinedine Soualem
- Plainclothes police officer
- Bernie Bonvoisin
- Plainclothes police officer
- Cyril Ancelin
- Plainclothes police officer
Credits
- Director
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Writer
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Executive producer
- Christophe Rossignon
- Line producer
- Gilles Sacuto
- Associate producer
- Adeline Lecallier
- Associate producer
- Alain Rocca
- Director of photography
- Pierre Aïm
- Camera operator
- Georges Diane
- Assistant director
- Eric Pujol
- Assistant director
- Ludovic Bernard
- Still photographer
- Guy Ferrandis
- Still photographer
- Jean-Claude Lother
- Steadicam operator
- Jacques Monge
- Sound
- Vincent Tulli
- Sound mixer
- Dominique Dalmasso
- Edited by
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Edited by
- Scott Stevenson
- Art director
- Giuseppe Ponturo
- Location manager
- Abdelnabi Krouchi
- Grip
- Vincent Blasco
- Makeup
- Sophie Benaiche
- Costume designer
- Virginie Montel
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