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La Haine
Originally released in 1995, provocative black and white thriller La Haine confirmed writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz as an audacious film-making talent when he won the coveted Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival. To mark its 25th anniversary, a sparkling 4K restoration of Kassovitz's picture returns to selected cinemas replete with an achingly cool hip hop soundtrack to mirror the trials and tribulations of disenchanted young people in Paris in the aftermath of a riot sparked by a police brutality. Unfolding over the course of one day, La Haine is glimpsed from the perspectives of three men: a young Arab called Said (Said Taghmaoui), Jewish brawler Vinz (Vincent Cassel) and black boxer Hubert (Hubert Kounde). Their fortunes become entwined on the streets of the banlieue where tensions are high and police are on high alert for more disturbances.
