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Mathieu Kassovitz: No Happy End for La Haine | FilmInk

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In Cannes to promote his role in Michael Haneke’s politicised Happy End, actor/director Mathieu Kassovitz spared no fools when discussing a possible sequel to his classic, La Haine…

M By James Mottram and Reuben Lazarus “People want me to do another La Haine . Because they say, ‘it’s twenty years, it’s an anniversary, do a sequel.’ But everybody died in the first one, I don’t know what I could do. A jihadist story? I don’t think I could make it funky. Never forget, La Haine is a comedy, that’s why it worked.” Back in 1995, Mathieu Kassovitz won Best Director at Cannes for his sophomore feature film La Haine , a bold in your face statement about the clash of cultures and youth in modern France, bolstered by its thumping French hip hop score, grimy black and white cinematog

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