TY - GEN AU - Mathieu Kassovitz AU - Mathieu Kassovitz AU - Vincent Cassel AU - Hubert Koundé AU - Saïd Taghmaoui TI - La Haine: Hate AV - PN1997 .H356 1995 PY - 1995/// CY - France PB - Canal+, Cofinergie 6, Egg Pictures N1 - Special features include: [DISC ONE] - Audio commentary by Mathieu Kassovitz - Video introduction by Jodie Foster [DISC TWO] - Ten years of "La haine," a new documentary that brings together key cast and crew a decade after the film's banlieue setting, including interviews with sociologists Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jeffrey Fagan, and William Kornblum - Behind-the-scenes footage - Deleted and extended scenes with new video afterwords by Kassovitz N2 - From case cover: When he was just twenty-nine years old, Mathieu Kassovitz took the international film world by storm with La haine (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically in the low-income banlieue districts on Paris's outskirts. Aimlessly whiling away 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 poulatins, their bristling resentment at their social marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of comtemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country's ongoing identity crisis ER -