Director: Mathieu Kassovits
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui
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La Haine follows an ethnically diverse group of three French youths in and around their public housing complex the day after a riot in their neighbourhood. It has a sharp, funny screenplay, despite subtitles often stepping on punchlines and features good naturalistic performances from the three leads. The actors are able to capture the bravado of youth and the film manages to walk the thinline of showing our heroes' persecution complex even as they are being persecuted. It's a low budget film, but its lo-fi digital aesethic mainly works, except when Kassovits overcompensates by using showy camera tricks Similarly the plot, which is mainly a small coming of age story about a day in the life of friends coping with their tough life, takes a sharp turn in the last 3 minutes that feels out of place and the work of a director who wanted to make sure his film ended with a bang. The youthful lack of discipline give the film's performances and dialogue it's spark, but unfortunately end up undermining the plotting and camerawork of an otherwise excellent film.
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