Writer-director Kassovitz, now 28, who has made several, contemporary street-life films (including "Cafe au Lait," which he wrote, directed and starred in), stirred up France with this movie last year. That's the fist-swinging message of "Hate" (French title: "La Haine"), a stunning picture by Mathieu Kassovitz that starkly divides the world between French society and its dark-skinned underclass, and between racist cops and oppressed immigrants. ![]() Life in the French projects is as blighted, bigoted and hopeless as it is in Harlem, Sao Paulo or Brixton. Vincent Cassel Said Taghmaoui Hubert Kounde While the hospitalized Abdel (never seen) malingers in the background, Vinz knocks around with his two friends, a sensible Arab kid called Said and a noble-spirited West African boxer called Hubert. ![]() When a police gun - involuntarily relinquished during the riots - becomes available to him, Vinz vows to use it on a cop, should Abdel die. His friend, Vinz, a hotheaded Jewish kid with a monumental authority problem, is furious. ![]() In an unnamed housing project near Paris, an Arab boy called Abdel has been beaten by cops during a riot.
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