Wednesday, July 11th
Film Night / Doors 8pm / Film 9pm
A gritty, unsettling and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia — a Jew, an African, and an Arab — give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point.
Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia —a Jew, an African, and an Arab—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches 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.
