The BFI has released a brand new trailer La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz’s ground-breaking 1995 epic which turns 25 this year.
The film stars Vincent Cassel (Black Swan, Irreversible)as Vinz,who is Jewish, Hubert Koundé (The Constant Gardener) as Hubert, a black boxer, and Saïd Taghmaoui (Wonder Woman) as Saïd, a young Arab; three friends in an immigrant community who mooch around a rundown banlieue in the Paris suburbs. The action takes place over the course of one day in the aftermath of riots that erupted as a consequence of an attack on a friend by police. With tension rapidly building and the police out on surveillance on the streets of the banlieue, prejudice and hostility inevitably brings about violence.
After a standing ovation, writer/director Kassovitz, just 27 at the time, won Best Director at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival for his visually bold and stylistically inventive black and white film with its cool hip-hop soundtrack.
Originally slated to be released as a new 4K restoration back in May, the film will no get a release on 11th September. It will then arrive on Blu-ray on 16 November 2020.
