Thu 10 Apr
|London
Never Watching Movies presents "LA HAINE" (1995)
On April 10th, Join us in Farrs bar for a screening of director Mathieu Kassovitz’s 1995 film “LA HAINE”
Time and Location
10 Apr 2025, 19:00 – 23:00
London, 17, 19 Dalston Ln, London E8 3DF, UK
About the event
Tickets HERE
Unemployment, racism and the prospect of living for the weekend, La Haine (The hate) follows the life of young French immigrants (Vinz, Hubert and Said) over the course of a day. The three young men live on an immigrant housing project/council estate (French: banlieues). After a young man from the estate (Abdel Ichacha) is tortured by the police, riots explode on the streets of Paris. Vinz, Said and Hubert find a gun lost by the police in the riots and threaten to kill a cop if their friend Abdel dies.
Positioned as troubled youth with nothing to do, the film questions if they are really aimless youth or if their circumstances have forced them to set aside their dreams in order to simply make it through another day. Outside the estate, the pressures of society ostracise them, finding themselves in environments that constantly make them feel unwelcome and…