Shot in cinema verité style, this film follows a day in the life of three aimless, violence-prone, ethnically-diverse young men who hail from the same decaying housing project in Paris.
Vinz, who is Jewish, is the angriest and the least intelligent of the three. North African Said is calmer, but is the most despairing about his future. Hubert is Black, and the most mature, channeling his rage through boxing. Although the trio seethes with fury over the arrest and senseless beating of an Arab friend, each manages to keep the other in check. But that changes after Vinz finds a loaded gun -- and the trio becomes entangled with the police, and later a group of skinheads.
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Review
New York Times, 02/09/1996, p.C21, "...[A] precise and troubling film....Smartly aware that many urban problems are also global..." Los Angeles Times, 03/08/1996, p.F16, "...Raw, vital and captivating....HATE is a visceral fable of a divided society heading blindly for a crash-landing..." USA Today, 02/09/1996, p.4D, "...Writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz (Cafe au Lait) mines so much tension and pointed dialogue from a low budget and deceptively simple premise..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars Rolling Stone, 02/22/1996, p.70, "...Prepare to be jolted by the intensity....The performances are as white hot as the subject matter..." Chicago Sun-Times, 04/19/1996, p.32, "...As a filmmaker, Kassovitz has grown since his first film. His black-and-white cinematography camera is alert, filling the frame with meaning his characters are not aware of..." Sight and Sound, 06/01/2006, p.88-89, "For all the comic byplay, Kassovitz keeps the viewer braced for the simmering tension to boil over." Variety, 05/29/1995, "...Extremely intelligent....The in-your-face lensing and more formal compositions are used to maximum effect..."
Title Note
Distributed in France by MKL/Lazennec Diffusion. Distributed in the USA by Jodie Foster's Egg Pictures.
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Product Notes
An ethnically diverse trio of angry young men living in a Paris housing project struggle with how to react after a friend of theirs is beaten by police during a riot. Winner of the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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