Despite its initial release being a quarter of a century ago, La Haine remains an incendiary and vital piece of cinema. Set on the divided and violent suburbs of Paris, La Haine (or 'Hate' in English) ...

Mathieu Kassovitz’s acclaimed 1995 film La Haine (Hate), which examines the lives of three young men from a housing project outside Paris, begins with its narrator telling the old joke about a guy who ...

It’s not often that an actor of Cillian Murphy’s caliber will lavish praise on another film, and there’s one 1995 classic he called out as a genuine masterpiece. However, when sitting down with ...

Kassowitz has said that he started writing La Haine in 1993, on the day that Makome M’Bowole, a 17-year-old from Zaire, was fatally shot at point-blank range while in police custody in Paris.

The French movie "La Haine" was a sensation when it came out 30 years ago. It was a groundbreaking story of Paris' troubled suburban housing projects. Three decades later, it is being turned into a ...

Nearly 30 years after 'La Haine' shocked audiences with its portrayal of police brutality and violence in France's suburbs, director Mathieu Kassovitz is reviving the story as a stage musical.

If you peer hard enough from the roofs of the Parisian suburbs where La Haine is set, you can just about see the tourist-friendly face of the city in the distance. Using tough, immediate, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about cinema and TV series in Europe. "La Haine" by Mathieu Kassovitz, with Hubert ...

Content warning: This article contains references to police brutality. Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources. The performances from all three actors are incredible — ...

Twenty years ago today, February 9, Mathieu Kassovitz’s “La Haine” opened in select theaters and began its theatrical rollout in America. The film was already an international sensation at this point, ...

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