January 24, 2007
Cualquiera que consideraba el cine como una perdida de tiempo y haya visto esta pelicula francesa allá por el 95 se enamoró de la cinematografia blanco/negro francesa! Y al fin, decidieron traerla a America , aunque sea 12 años despues! Y quien mejor que los Criterion! :D   |
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When he was just twenty-nine years old, Mathieu Kassovitz took the international film world by storm with La haine (Hate),
a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and
cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically in the
low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly whiling
away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia,
Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd
Taghmaoui)—a Jew, an African, and an Arab—give human faces to France’s
immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social
marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling
point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.
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| SPECIAL TWO-DISC EDITION FEATURES: |
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New, restored high-definition digital transfer |
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New English-language audio commentary by writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz |
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Optional Dolby Digital 5.1 track |
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Video introduction by Jodie Foster |
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Ten Years of "La haine," a new documentary that brings together key cast and crew a decade after the film’s landmark release |
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Social Dynamite, a new video featurette on the film’s banlieue
setting, including interviews with sociologists Sophie Body-Gendrot,
Jeffrey Fagan, and William Kornblum |
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Video reportage from 2005 of the film’s Chanteloup-les-Vignes banlieue location |
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Two video segments shot during the film’s production: the crew
adjusting to their banlieue home, and Kassovitz directing a technically
challenging scene |
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Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos |
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Deleted and extended scenes, each featuring a new video afterword by Kassovitz |
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Theatrical trailers |
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New and improved English subtitle translation |
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PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and notes by acclaimed director Costa-Gavras |
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Vinz | Vincent Cassel |
Hubert | Hubert Koundé |
Saïd | Saïd Taghmaoui |
Abdel | Abdel Ahmed Ghili |
Santo | Solo |
Ordinary guy | Joseph Momo |
Sarah | Héloïse Rauth |
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Writer and director |
Mathieu Kassovitz |
Producer |
Christophe Rossignon |
Line producer |
Gilles Sacuto |
Associate producers |
Adeline Lecallier, Alain Rocca |
Director of photography |
Pierre Aïm |
Camera operator |
Georges Diane |
Sound |
Vinecent Tulli |
Edited by |
Mathieu Kassovitz, Scott Stevenson |
Art director |
Giuseppe Ponturo |
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La haine is presented
in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Black bars at the top and
bottom of the screen are normal for this format. Supervised by director
Mathieu Kassovitz, this new high-definition digital transfer was
created on a Spirit Datacine from a 35mm fine-grain master positive.
Further color correction was done on a Specter Datcine. Thousands of
instances of dirt, debris, and scratches were removed using the MTI
Digital Restoration System. To maintain optimal image quality through
the compression process, the picture on this dual-layer DVD-9 was
encoded at the highest-possible bit rate for the quantity of material
included.
The soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from the original stems,
and audio restoration tools were used to reduce clicks, pops, hiss, and
crackle.
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Posted on 01/24/2007 2:01 PM Comments (2)
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