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 banlieues on the outskirts of Paris.Īimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of a dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)-a Jew, African, and Arab-personify France’s immigrant populations. Winner of Three César Awards including Best Film Winner of Best Director Award at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival
With Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili
