VHS Tracking Presents:
La Haine (1995) with Rachel Salmon-Lomas
Wednesday 12 March 2025 6:30pm
Goolugatup Heathcote

La Haine (1995)

Director 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) — a Jew, an African, and an Arab — 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 contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.

About the programmer and presenter, Rachel Salmon-Lomas

Rachel Salmon-Lomas is a Borloo based artist, DJ and radio presenter at RTRFM – under the moniker of Rok Riley. Salmon-Lomas is also a printmaker who teaches Printmedia at Curtin University.