La Haine

ISBN: 9781845111014 出版年：2005 页码：129 Ginette Vincendeau Bloomsbury Publishing

"La Haine" is a cult classaudiences, recently re-released and available on dvd. Ginette Vincendeau is top authority internationally on French cinema, who writes (eg "Sight and Sound") and broadcasts (eg "Front Row Radio 4") on it regularly. It is hugely enjoyable, exciting book written with great panache and accessibility. Released in 1995, "La Haine" is the black and white chronicle of 24 hours in the life of a mixed-race young marun-down Parisian suburb. Tthen - unknown young team, it became hugely and unexpectedly successful, launching director Mathieu Kassovitz aVincent Cassel to stardom. Vincendeau provides a thorough understanding of the context of the film's making, both in terms of the film industry and of French society, of the film's narrative tension, stylistic sophistication and ideological ambiguity and of its extraordinary success nationally and internationally. She thus explaiso many films about disaffected youth, "La Haine" is the one that has caught the international imagination.