The French movie "La Haine" was a sensation when it came out 30 years ago. It was a groundbreaking story of Paris' troubled suburban housing projects. Three decades later, it is being turned into ...

Kassowitz has said that he started writing La Haine in 1993, on the day that Makome M’Bowole, a 17-year-old from Zaire, was fatally shot at point-blank range while in police custody in Paris.

I write about cinema and TV series in Europe. The cult French film, La haine, about police brutality in the Parisian suburbs was released 25 years ago. Its director, Mathieu Kassovitz, announced ...

As a new hip-hop musical adaptation of the French classic opens in Paris, the film's director Mathieu Kassovitz talks about the problems that inspired his work and how it remains relevant today.