La haine (1995)

AKAs:

The Hate (International: English title)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/

Criterion #381

https://www.criterion.com/films/216

Director: Kihachi Okamoto

Description: When he was just twenty-nine years old, Mathieu Kassovitz took the international film world by storm with La Haine (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically in the low-income banlieue districts on Paris's outskirts. Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Kounde), and Said (Said Taghmaoui)-- a Jew, an African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social marginalization slowly simmering until they reach a climactic 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: NTSC

D1: DVD9: 7.74 GB - Exact Untouched Copy

D2: DVD9: 6.58 GB - Exact Untouched Copy

Color: Color | Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Language: French

Subtitle: English

Disc Features:

SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET:

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Mathieu Kassovitz.
• New English-language audio commentary by Kassovitz.
• Video introduction by Jodie Foster.
• Optional Dolby Digital 5.1 track.
• Ten Years of 'La haine,' a new documentary that brings together key cast and crew a decade after the films landmark release.
• New video featurette on the films banlieue setting, including interviews with sociologists Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jeffrey Fagan, and William Kornblum.
• Behind-the-scenes footage shot during the films production.
• Deleted and extended scenes, each featuring a new video afterword by Kassovitz.
• Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos.
• Theatrical trailers.
• New and improved English subtitle translation.

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