BFI Bringing La Haine Back To UK Cinemas In 4K!

Mathieu Kassovitz‘s trailblazing French crime thriller La Haine will be 25 years old this year. To celebrate the release,BFI is bringing the cult film  back to UK Cinemas in 4K!

The film will play at BFI Sountbank in London as well as selected cinemas around the UK from September. Like many things the film was originally due for a UK re-release back in May now getting the green light for early Autumn.

The film marked Kassovtiz’s second only full length feature which got an standing ovation at Cannes in 1995. The director was only 27 and 25 years later the film’s themes resonant with today’s climate. Its themes of social and economic divide and urban discontent.

The film stars Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui, 3 young men living in the immigrant community in the Parisian suburbs. The conditions are impoverished, Police surveillance is rife as we watch the aftermath if riots.

BFI have created a trailer check it out…

LA HAINE 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.

La Haine returns to UK cinemas from 11 September 2020 to mark the film’s 25th anniversary, followed by a Limited Edition Blu-ray in November 2020.