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You can watch La Haine (1995) for free on Kanopy.

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

Black-and-white shadows soak the concrete sprawl of the Parisian banlieues in a mood of restless, ticking tension. This kinetic portrait of three friends captures the volatile friction between disillusioned youth and a police force on the brink of explosion.

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