Joey Magidson
Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we again don’t have a ton of new releases to discuss, but we have a very strong film coming to the Criterion Collection. Yes, this week brings the induction of none other than La haine. Read on for more…
La haine (Criterion)
From The Criterion Collection: “Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—Jewish, African, and Arab, respectively—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of 1990s French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.”
Four Daughters
Major League (4K)
RED: 2-Film Collection (4K)
*A reminder that the top pick, La haine, is the Criterion release this week*
Stay tuned for more next week…
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