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But it was in its home country where its impact was most indelible.

KassovitzвЂ™s film did well around the world, quickly achieving cult-cinema status. Watching the dazzling shot that begins in a DJвЂ™s bedroom, then arcs out over the concrete expanses as he beat-juggles KRS-One, French rap group NTM and Г‰dith Piaf, itвЂ™s clear he aced it on both counts. Kassovitz believed in the hip-hop mantra of вЂњedutainmentвЂќ вЂ“ where social awareness and style met.

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Converted to elegiac black-and-white in post-production, quoting brass-balled Hollywood movies such as Taxi Driver and Scarface, it more than matched US counterparts such as Boyz N the Hood. The trio loll on their turf, then head into central Paris, oblivious to approaching catastrophe.Д«ut La Haine was not dry sermonising, it was a proper coup de cinГ©ma. The characters ended up taking the actorsвЂ™ first names: Vinz (Vincent Cassel), the Jewish hothead who, after a riot, finds a copвЂ™s Smith & Wesson and vows to take revenge for the latest police beating Hubert (KoundГ©), the ruminative black boxer and small-time dealer who tries to get his friend to drop the bluster SaГЇd (Taghmaoui), the Arab joker who mediates between them. Kassovitz started writing his script the same day as that shooting: 24 hours in the life of a вЂњ black-blanc-beurвЂќ (black-white-Arab) tricolour of wideboys living on a Paris sink estate. This was just one of more than 300 recorded bavures (вЂњslip-upsвЂќ) committed by French police since 1981. I was so mad at the whole situation,вЂќ says Kassovitz today. вЂњI was in my car, not too far away, when I heard about it on the radio, so I parked and went to join in with the protests. Its then 27-year-old writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz had been driven to make it by outrage over a similar incident to Belhabib: the accidental shooting of 17-year-old Zairian immigrant MakomГ© MвЂ™Bowole in a police station in April 1993. La Haine, which premiered 25 years ago this week, asked the right questions.

Not police brutality, nor the social conditions in вЂњNoisy-la-HaineвЂќ, as one newspaper put it вЂ“ the poverty and boredom that may have led Belkacem Belhabib to steal the motorbike that he fatally crashed into a set of traffic lights. When, in June 1995, ParisвЂ™s eastern suburb of Noisy-le-Grand began rioting after the death of a 21-year-old French-Arab in a police chase, politicians and the media asked if a film released the previous week, La Haine, had sparked the mayhem. E ven the wrong question points to the truth.

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