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La haine [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Mathieu Kazzovitz.

Criterion Collection, c2007.

Marginality, Social -- France -- Drama.

Race relations -- Drama.

Riots -- France -- Paris -- Drama.

Urban violence -- France -- Drama.

Paris (France) -- Social conditions -- Drama.

France -- Race relations -- Drama.

Criterion collection 381.

Video Difference legacy collection.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Director-approved DVD special ed.

2 videodiscs (97 min. + bonus material) : 5.1 Dolby digital stereo. sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1995.

Special features: Disc 1: Video introduction by Jodie Foster (14:51) ; new English-language audio commentary by director Mathieu Kassovitz ; theatrical trailers ; Disc 2: "Ten years of La haine", a new documentary that brings together key cast and crew a decade after the film's landmark release (83:25): ; new video featurette on the film's banlieue setting, including interviews with sociologists Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jeffrey Fagan, and William Kornblum ; behind-the-scenes footage ; deleted and extended scenes with new video afterwords by Kassovitz (5:57) ; stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos ; plus, a new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau, and appreciation by Costa-Gavras (in booklet).

1.85:1 aspect ratio. Enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs.

In French with optional English subtitles.

Disc 1. The film (97 min.) -- Disc 2. The supplements (approx. 135 min.).

Produced by Christoph Rossignon ; written & directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.

Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui with Abdel Ahmed Ghili, Solo, Joseph Momo and Heloise Rauth.

"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, Hubert, and Said - a Jew, an African, and an Arab - give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentments 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."--Container.

Urban drama (Films)

Films français.

Kassovitz, Mathieu, 1967-

Cassel, Vincent, 1966-

Kounde, Hubert.

Taghmaoui, Saïd.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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