![]() ![]() ![]() In terms of debates around globalisation these facts would support the idea that we are now able to view cultural symbols from areas that aren’t necessarily local. Whilst La Haine was made with a relatively small budget of 1.5 million pounds it grossed around 300 thousand dollars and achieved distribution in both Britain and America. The film received a great response in France and is now popular in Britain and parts of North America. The film is set in ‘les banlieues’ in Paris and based around three main characters who differ greatly not just in their ethnicity, but also their outlook on reality. Headed by Don Weenink they focus on how group behavior affects the likelihood and severity of violence.Īt Roffa Mon Amour, Floris talks about how La Haine (1995) was received back when the film came out, and how the film could be watched today.La Haine is a French black and white drama/suspense film directed by Matthew Kassovitz. As a PhD candidate he is now part of the Group Violence Research Program at the University of Amsterdam. After graduating in Cultural Sociology he worked at the Netherlands Institute of Crime and Law Enforcement mapping how robberies unfold using video analysis. The film has ever since inspired audiences all over the world.įloris Mosselman studies the way groups of young adults give meaning to – and embody – conflict situations. 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. ![]()
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