La Haine

from Mathieu Kassovitz

with Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Saïd Taghmaoui, Karim Belkhadra, Adouard Montoute, Joseph Momo, Héloïse Rauth, Rywka Wajsbrot

Synopsis Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said -- a Jew, African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point.