Episode 739: La Haine (1995)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Tension simmers in La Haine (1995), Matthieu Kassovitz’s electrifying portrait of disenfranchised youth in the Parisian banlieues. Mike is joined by guest co-hosts Lumi Etienne and Judith Mayne for a deep dive into the film’s kinetic black-and-white visuals, pulsing energy, and unflinching look at police violence, social unrest, and alienation.

Over the course of a single 24-hour span, we follow Vinz, Saïd, and Hubert—three friends caught in a spiral of rage, hopelessness, and reaction to systemic oppression.

Special guest Ginette Vincendeau, renowned scholar of French cinema, offers historical and cultural insights into the film’s legacy, its groundbreaking release in 1995, and why La Haine remains tragically relevant in today’s global conversations about race, inequality, and law enforcement.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:21.6	Turn it off.
0:22.6	Turn it off.
0:23.6	It's a lot. It's the story of a man who
0:40.3	falls on a immoble of a 50-st-stages.
0:42.3	The man, on the measure of his
0:44.3	shud, he's repeated,
0:46.3	for sure to be sure.
0:48.3	Just here, all right.
0:50.3	Just here, all is all
0:51.3	all.
0:52.3	Just here, all. But. Just here, all right.
0:55.4	But the importance is not the chute.
0:59.1	It's the
0:59.7	interrissage.
1:03.1	Let's get me.
1:05.3	You know,
1:05.5	my cuss.
	...

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