Moscow Film Society: La Haine

Thursday, February 13 at 7 PM

“Stark, exquisite black-and-white photography drains what little cheer there is out of the concrete jungle, creating an alien cityscape devoid of sunshine. But Mathieu Kassovitz’s triumph is in finding humanity in every single one of his characters.”
— Alan Morrison, Empire Magazine

Moscow Film Society presents LA HAINE as part of their Modern Monochrome series featuring black and white movies released in the age of color film. A gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd —Jewish, African, and Arab, respectively—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 1990s French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s (and ours) ongoing identity crisis.

Rated: Not Rated | 1 hr 38 min | Tickets: $8 Adult / Film Pass