'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 11: LA HAINE (1995) [feat. Grant Zoch]

Featuring special guest Grant Zoch (Slimethug on Letterboxd)!

Focusing on three rabblerousing friends living in the Parisian suburbs under a police state, LA HAINE is a film that makes abstract concepts – racial tension, toxic masculinity – concrete through its characters. It skirts coming off as “capital ‘I’ important” by grounding so many of its big topics in its characters’ very real-feeling, human reactions to them. It’s an absolute gut-punch of a movie whose resonance is only deepened today by the increasing oppression of the ubiquitous, publicly funded malignancy that composes the American police force on marginalized communities across the country.

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