Clearly, this “malaise of the ghetto” (as a posh gallery owner in La Haine sniffily puts it) remains as explosive as ever.

Watching the opening credits, as Bob Marley’s “Burnin’ and Lootin”’ plays out over documentary footage of Paris riots, viewers will draw parallels with the violent clashes which beset the French capital’s banlieues in 2005, 20.

But one thing’s for sure: this year’s fest failed to deliver a scandal on a par with the furore surrounding Vincent Gallo’s The Brown Bunny (2003), Lars von Trier’s Hitlergate moment in 2011, or French cops turning their backs to Mathieu Kassovitz when he won best director prize in 1995 for La Haine, his searing indictment of French society’s exclusion of disenfranchised youths from the Paris projects (or cités).Īs Kassovitz’s visceral debut celebrates its 20th anniversary, what’s most striking about this 24-hour window into the lives of three ethnically diverse male protagonists – Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui) and Hubert (Hubert Koundé) – is that the shockingly gritty fable has lost none of its potency. Hs are always silent in French and the word haine is simply pronounced like the letter N.As the dust begins to settle on the French Riviera, film buffs are fighting over whether first-time director László Nemes was robbed of the Palme d’Or for his highly praised Holocaust drama, Son of Saul. Hot pronunciation tip from your hosts: don't shy away from the film's title. Released in 1995 in the midst of France's 'fracture sociale,' the film - with its underlying themes of police brutality, racism, disenchanted youth, and social unrest - is as relevant today as it was then. To celebrate Fruit of My Past, Souag's debut exhibition at Nationale, they're honored to collaborate with the Hollywood Theatre for this special screening. They immediately chanted in unison, ' Jusqu'ici tout va bien.' and soon realized how impactful the film had been for them, especially how influential it had been on Souag's work. Nationale's curator May Barruel and artist Salomée Souag were recently discussing their upbringing on opposite sides of the Franco-Swiss border when LA HAINE came up. Their bristling resentment at their own marginalization slowly simmers until it reaches a climactic boiling point. The film follows three friends, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui) and Hubert (Hubert Koundé), for 24 hours after the riots. When a young man named Abdel is arrested and beaten unconscious by police, a riot erupts in the housing projects outside of Paris. Nationale and Salomée Souag present Mathieu Kassovitz' 1995 cult film.

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