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When a young Arab is arrested and beaten unconscious by police, a riot erupts in the notoriously violent suburbs outside of Paris. The film follows 24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after.
The conveniently manufactured ending is a let-down, but the display of raw emotion and kinetic energy lingers with the viewer long after the film is over.
Writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz mines so much tension and pointed dialogue from a low budget and deceptively simple premise that you wonder why so much of current Hollywood's own social realism ends up shooting $50 million blanks.
January 01, 2000
Under the Radar
Mathieu Kassovitz's gritty, documentary-like second film is a powerful comment on class and racial disparity.