Mathieu Kassovitz is a 29-year-old French director who in his first two films has probed the wound of alienation among France's young outsiders. His new film “Hate” tells the story of three young men an Arab, an African and a Jew who spend an aimless day in a sterile Paris suburb, as social turmoil swirls around them and they eventually get into a confrontation with the police.
If France is the man falling off the building, they are the sidewalk.
In Kassovitz's first film, “Cafe au Lait” (1994), he told the story of a young woman from the Caribbean who summons her two boyfriends one African, one Jewish to announce that she is pregnant. That film, inspired by Spike Lee's “She's Gotta Have It,” was more of a comedy, but with “Hate,” also about characters who are not ethnically French, he has painted a much darker vision.
In America, where for all of our problems, we are long accustomed to being a melting pot, it is hard to realize how monolithic most Europ
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My Brother The Devil, Sally El Hosaini rejected many of the directorial offers that followed.
It might be counter-intuitive to anyone who has spent years knocking on the notoriously hard-to-open door to the film industry, but El Hosaini has her reasons. For one, she was not a fan of the stereotypical subject matter she was receiving
– a lot of ISIS and honour killings.
“They saw I was a woman, they saw my name and they approached me with those stories that I didn’t want to do,” says
the Egyptian-Welsh filmmaker, during
Mena Arts UK and the Arab British Centre’s first Friday Hangout event, held last week over Zoom. “I want to be happy with what I put out in the world.”
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Vincent Cassel, Said Taghmaoui and Hubert Kounde in La Haine
La Haine
LA HAINE was the toast of Cannes when it premiered in 1995. It won Mathieu Kassovitz the best director award at the festival and changed the face of French film forever.
Brutal, bleak and believable, it tells the tale of the shooting of a young Arab boy in the culturally barren mean streets of the sink-hole housing estates that lie outside the picture postcard allure of the French capital – those dark avenues and alleyways where tourists fear to tread and even the locals don t venture out alone in.
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