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Le Pacte
Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
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, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing 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 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.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1
Audio Options:
French DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Introduction, Documentary, Featurette, Behind the Scenes Footage, Deleted Scenes, Gallery, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
- 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 Costa-Gavras
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Release Credits
Artwork: Neil Kellerhouse
Producer: Curtis Tsui
Producer: Alexandre Mabilon
Artwork: Peter Grant
Release Notes on Restoration
La Haine
La haine is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Black bars at the top and bottom of the screen are normal for this format. Supervised by director Mathieu Kassovitz, this new high-definition digital transfer was created on a Spirit Datacine from a 35mm fine-grain master positive. Further color correction was done on a Specter Datacine. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, warps, and jitter were manually removed using the MTI’s DRS and Pixel Farm’s PFClean, while Image Vision’s DVNR system was used for small dirt, grain, and noise reduction.
The 5.1 surround soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from the original stems. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube’s integrated workstation.
The 5.1 surround soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from the original stems. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube’s integrated workstation.