La Haine [French]

Starring: Cassel, Vincent and Kounde, Hubert

Mathieu Kassovitz (The Crimson Rivers) took the film world by storm with LA HAINE (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieues on Paris's outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Irreversible's Vincent Cassel), Hubert (The Constant Gardener's Hubert Kounde), and Said (Three Kings' Said Taghmaoui)-white, black, and Arab-give human faces to France's immigrant and otherwise marginalized populations, their resentment at their situation simmering until it reaches a boiling point. A work of tough beauty, LA HAINE is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country's ongoing identity crisis.

• Format: DVD
• Language: French
• UPC: 715515023023
• Release Date: April 2007
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Criterion/ Distribution S
• Director: Kassovitz, Mathieu
• Starring: Cassel, Vincent, Kounde, Hubert
• Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"