The housing estate where the boys live looks very crowded. This is shown to the audience in many ways, and in many key scenes which I shall look into further in the essay. And as we can see in the film, apart from maybe Hubert and his gym, the other main characters don't have jobs, and they all, especially Vinz seem to have delinquent behaviour. As Ardagh writes, 'la banlieue' has today come to evokesocial tensions, delinquency, high jobless rates, frustration, maybe racial conflict'. In La Haine, the banlieue is represented as a bad place to live, the equivalent to the British council estates. I will refer to key scenes within the film to show how successful Kassovitz has been when representing this way of life. This film is a dramatised documentary looking at prostitution, unemployment and the lack of emotion towards the Atomic War, and was a banlieue film before the term was even invented. Other banlieue films are not readily available, however the first banlieue film was titled Deux Ou Trois Choses Que Je Sais D'Elle' (d.

Similar to the English Social Realist films, these films concentrated on unemployment, housing estates and riots. Yet La Haine bought with it a new film genre, that of the cinema du banlieue, which depicted the more poverty stricken side of French city life. Whereas the cinema du look films were much more concerned with how the film looked, and were visually spectacular. The heritage film, as the name suggests concentrated primarily on historical events, and were set in the past similar to the English period dramas.

Many of the films released in France at this time fell into two categories: the heritage film and the cinema du look. La Haine was quite controversial when it was released and caused quite a stir, mainly for the way it was shot and its narrative content. This film looks at the relationship between three young men living in the banlieues of France. To conclude, I shall show how successful I believe he has been in representing the problems of life in this particular stratum of French life. I shall look at how he demonstrates to the audience all of the problems that are present in the banlieue. In this essay I shall be looking at how Kassovitz uses mise en scene, cinematography, editing and sound in his film La Haine (d.

La haine poster