The Sound and the Fury

Rap, reggae and Resistance in La Haine

Among hip-hop fans and French cinema aficionados alike, there’s widespread love for a certain scene in La Haine featuring the French DJ Cut Killer. We find him inside an HLM (habitation à loyer modéré– what we in the UK would call a council flat), pushing a speaker towards an open window, then mixing two…

Read the rest in the May 2020 issue of Sight & Sound magazine