Robert Daniels

2 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Xuanlin Tham |Robert Daniels |Ella Kemp |La haine

Liberté, egalité, fraternité. Blue, white, and red. Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui), Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé). What is the power of three? Three decades ago, La Haine exploded onto the world stage at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, winning 27-year-old Matthieu Kassovitz the prize of Best Director and searing its name—two deceptively soft-sounding French syllables for what we would imagine being snarled, hurled, splintering and enraged, hatred—into the annals of film history.