While acknowledging the film's flaws, such as the grammatically poor English subtitles, commentators praised its clear political message and compared it to films such as La Haine and Do the Right Thing. Although real-time-rendered, three-dimensional computer animation ( machinima) had been used in earlier political films, The French Democracy attained an unprecedented level of mainstream attention for political machinima. The film was uploaded to The Movies Online, Lionhead's website for user-created videos, on 22 November 2005 and was soon covered by American and French press.
Although Chan was restricted by shortcomings and technical limitations in The Movies, he finished the film after four days of production. Chan, a French native of Chinese descent, created the film to convey his view that racism caused the riots of the 2005 civil unrest in France. The plot centers on three Moroccan men who turn to rioting after facing different forms of discrimination. The French Democracy is a short 2005 French political film made by Alex Chan using computer animation from Lionhead Studios' 2005 business simulation game The Movies. “An unmissable response to an unending emergency.A scene from The French Democracy, showing dialogue in English subtitles and the three central youths of the film “One of the most nuanced and technically accomplished treatments of race, violence, and the politics of assimilation in recent cinema.” – Slant Magazine “One of the most blisteringly effective pieces of urban cinema ever made.” – The Times “raw, vital and captivating” – Los Angeles Times Few films in recent memory have sparked more heated discussions.” Richard Peña, series curator: “Mathieu Kassovitz’s stylish and controversial chronicle of a long day and even longer night follows three friends as they travel from their familiar banlieue to the increasingly hostile streets of Paris.
Their bristling resentment at their marginalization simmers until it reaches a climactic boiling point.Ī rough-hewn work of beauty, La Haine is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis. 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 banlieues on the outskirts of Paris.Īimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of a dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)-a Jew, African, and Arab-personify France’s immigrant populations. Winner of Three César Awards including Best Film Winner of Best Director Award at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival With Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili
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