LE Haine review

La Haine is a 1995 French black-and-white drama/suspense film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. It is commonly released under its French title in the English-speaking world, although its U.S. VHS release was entitled Hate. It is about three young friends and their struggle to live in the banlieues of Paris. The title derives from a line spoken by one of them, Hubert: "La haine attire la haine !", "hatred breeds hatred."


The mise-en-scene of this film is key in making the gritty environment of the film. For instance through the utilization of good area a urban, ghetto suburb can be displayed to the gathering of people (as appeared through a few shots, for example, the housetop scene, the urban park, destructed exercise center) which includes onto the representation of a poverty stricken suburb. The clothing that the characters wear i.e. hoodies/calfskin coats, loose apparel connections to this group philosophy that is expected to gone through the ghetto rural areas, this can be connected back to the issue of police violance and how youths have been assaulted by the police in light of this.

The cinematography and the altering of the film is vital in making La Haine a famous arthouse film. The use of highly contrasting cinematography gives the film an old look, as though the film is thinking once again into the past, however this additionally accentuations its sense of realism. The films sense  realism is additionally upgraded through the procedure of suturing toward the start of the film as genuine news footage is appeared toward the begin of the film, this promptly proposes that  this film is based around an issue. I have additionally seen with the cinematography that the camera development is entirely smooth which proposes that a lot of steadicam has been used. A considerable measure of long shots have been used as a part of spot of the typical medium shots which permits the crowd to see from a more extensive point of view on the move that is making place.