La Haine (1995) movie poster

La Haine (1995)

"How far you fall doesn't matter, it's how you land…"
ThumbScore
👍 92%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 96%
Drama

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Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
NR
Country
France
Language
French
TMDB Rating
8.1/10 (4,463 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
96%

Cast

Vincent Cassel as Vinz · 73% avg
Hubert Koundé as Hubert
Saïd Taghmaoui as Saïd · 68% avg
Abdel Ahmed Ghili as Abdel
Solo as Santo
Joseph Momo as Ordinary Man
Héloïse Rauth as Sarah
Rywka Wajsbrot as Vinz's Grandmother

Is La Haine good?

Yes. 92% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 96%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#60 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#3 / 107 · 1995

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

La Haine is a 1995 French drama directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, one of the most important French films of the 1990s. The film follows three young men — Vinz, a Jewish skinhead played by Vincent Cassel; Hubert, a Black amateur boxer played by Hubert Kounde; and Said, an Arab played by Said Taghmaoui — over 24 hours in the aftermath of a riot in a Parisian housing project triggered by police brutality that has left their friend in a coma. Vinz has found a policeman's gun lost during the riot and plans to kill a cop if their friend dies.

Mathieu Kassovitz shot the film in striking black and white, giving the Parisian banlieues a documentary-like immediacy that made the social realism feel urgent and authentic. La Haine won the Best Director award at Cannes and earned widespread critical acclaim for its unflinching depiction of racial tension, police violence, and the desperation of young men trapped in a cycle of poverty and institutional neglect.

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