
La Haine
- Today, Feb 11
- Wed, Feb 12
- Thu, Feb 13
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz Run Time: 98 min. Release Year: 1995 Language: French
Starring: Abdel Ahmed Ghili, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Solo, Vincent Cassel
Celebrate 30 years of the French crime masterpiece La Haine!
Director Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with his 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)—a Jew, an African, and an Arab—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 contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.