More info at IMDb, Wikipedia, Rotten Tomatoes, Netflix, Wikidata. Wendy Ide of The Times stated that La Haine is "One of the most blisteringly effective pieces of urban cinema ever made." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called the film "raw, vital and captivating". The site's consensus reads: "Hard-hitting and breathtakingly effective, La Haine takes an uncompromising look at long-festering social and economic divisions affecting 1990s Paris". Vinz swears that if Abdel dies, he will shoot a policeman.īased on 25 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an overall approval rating from critics of 100%, with an average score of 8.12/10. Abdel, a local hoodlum, is hospitalized after a riot, where a policeman lost his gun. Key Scenes: Opening scene ‘This morning I woke up in a curfew O God, I was a prisoner, too - yeahCould not recognize the faces standing over me They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality. Vinz and his two pals, Said and Hubert, have nothing to do so they try to kill time.
In the suburbs where he lives, some riots happened during the night, and one policeman lost his gun. Injured by a police inspector during an interrogation, Abdel is at a hospital, almost dead. Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili