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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 Kound‚), and Sa‹d (Three Kings' Sa‹d 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
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
Product Details
Actors: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Said Taghmaoui
Directors: Mathieu Kassovitz
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: French
Subtitles: Spanish
Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: May 8, 2012
Run Time: 97 minutes
Special Features
Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Mathieu Kassovitz, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
English-language audio commentary by Kassovitz
Introduction by actor Jodie Foster
Ten Years of “La haine,” an eighty-minute documentary that brings together cast and crew a decade after the film’s landmark release
Featurette on the film’s banlieue setting, including interviews with sociologists Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jeffrey Fagan, and William Kornblum
Production footage
Deleted and extended scenes, each featuring an afterword by Kassovitz
Gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
Trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 2006 appreciation by acclaimed filmmaker Costa-Gavras
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