"La Haine" II: The Director's Cut...

A quick addendum to Raph's and Sophie's posts below. Mathieu Kassovitz, the director of the film La Haine that both refer to, has posted his own take on the recent riots in Paris on his website, in which he notes tha he is having "to restrain himself from encouraging the rioters". Kassovitz seems to blame the "depravations of politicians" for prolonging, if not inciting, the problems; indeed, his piece is more an anti-Sarkozy polemic than an analysis of what's going on in Paris and elsewhere. Still, worth a read; in French here, and in English here.