Moscow Film Society: La Haine

Moscow Film Society presents LA HAINE as part of their Modern Monochrome series featuring black and white movies released in the age of color film. A gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd —Jewish, African, and Arab, respectively—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of 1990s French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s (and ours) ongoing identity crisis.

Rated: Not Rated | 1 hr 38 min | Tickets: $8 Adult / Film Pass