Licensor
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
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 Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd 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.
Technical Specifications
Format: DVD
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1 (Anamorphic)
Audio:
French 2.0 Dolby Digital Surround
, French 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
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Subtitles:
English
Region:
1
Discs:
2 Discs |
DVD-9
Supplements
- Audio commentary by Mathieu Kassovitz
- Introduction by actor Jodie Foster
- Ten Years of “La haine,” a documentary that brings together cast and crew a decade after the film’s landmark release
- Featurette on the film’s banlieue setting
- Production footage
- Deleted and extended scenes, each with an afterword by Mathieu Kassovitz
- Gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
- Trailers
- A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 2006 appreciation by filmmaker
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Release Credits
Artwork: Neil Kellerhouse
Producer: Curtis Tsui
Producer: Alexandre Mabilon
Artwork: Peter Grant
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