Impressioning movie La Haine is a movie that is hard to forget. I am not going to give you a whole summary, that is what the IMDB description above is for. The last commentator who wrote about this movie called it superficial. La Haine is an exact portrayal of some poor suburbs outside of Paris. This movie speaks of real problems. As a Franco-American who has spent a good chunk of my 18yr old life in Paris- I was very impressed how accurate the characters were.
There are many cultural nuances, I think this is why I appreciate this film so much. One of the characters is Jewish (Mathieu Kassovitz) and the other Arabic, whose family is from North Africa.
My family is a Jewish Sephardic family from Algeria who moved to Paris after the war. The expressions and stereotypes were right on target. I loved how the director chose to mainly focus on the three peoples friendship, stressing each of their backgrounds. It adds so much genuinity to the film. TWhat striked me was the joke's tagline "Up till now, everythings fine" -which is the characters' method and mentality to deal with poverty, and above all France's stinging racism, which is in a distinct league of its own. Mathieu Kassovitz is brilliant. This film is dolorously raw, real, yet hilarious. Another excellent and very differnet movie with kassovitz is Amen.