![]() ![]() Yet the wrongs it took on with what Kassovitz calls a "fierce and hard realism" seem as unresolved as ever. Indeed the movie is so "part of people's lives" and French cultural identity in general, that a musical version of the story will hit the stage next year. It blazed a path for films like "Les Miserables", which covered similar ground and was nominated for a best foreign language Oscar this year, as well as a whole French sub-genre of "banlieue" movies. ![]() "We are all children of 'La Haine'," he told AFP. Kassovitz is re-releasing the gritty black-and-white film about three young men from the high-rises - which launched the career of Vincent Cassel - next month in France as the country grapples with another spate of police brutality cases. "But the important thing is not the fall, it's the landing." "So far so good," said the actor and director with acid irony, repeating the film's most famous line that a man repeats to himself as he falls from a 50-storey building. The headlines are again dominated, both in France and elsewhere, by police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement. His powerful 1995 film "La Haine" (Hate) lifted the lid on the police racism in the poor and seething suburbs of Paris.Ī quarter of a century on - and despite the 2005 riots sparked by heavy-handed policing - lessons remain unlearned. ![]() You can forgive Mathieu Kassovitz feeling a sense of deja vu. ![]()
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