"Métisse" et "La haine"

I just watched two films by Mathieu Kassovitz, "Métisse" ("Café au Lait" in the U.S.)(1993) and "La haine" (Hate)(1995). In "Métisse" Lola, a West Indian woman finds out that she is pregnant. The father is one of her two lovers, a Jewish bike messenger or an African Muslim who is the son of a diplomat. The former is into hip hop, boxing and basketball, and the latter is a law student who is into jazz. After a lot of conflict, the two come to share an apartment with her. Their are hints that the bike messenger is the father, but it never made completely clear. It is a very funny film. The movie ends after the birth of the baby, a boy, but we never see him. Lola makes it clear to her lovers that she would like to have them with her, but she can is capable of living without them. She loves both of them, and both of them want to please her. "La haine" deals with racial tensions in the suburbs of Paris. The film open with riots that take place after an Arab man has been hospitalized after he has been beaten by a police officer while in custody. The film centers around three friends, one Arab, one African and one Jewish. It shows them together and with their families. In several places during the story they have dealings with the police. All three of them grew up in France, but they are treated as outsiders. One of the three finds a police gun during the riots. The one with the gun says that if the guy in the hospital dies he is going to shoot a police officer. There are similarities between what happens during the riots and what has been going on in the U.S. lately, but there are differences. In the film we only see violent encounters between the police and those rioting. We do not see any peaceful protest as we have seen in the U.S. It the movie, the police officer has been suspended, and it is made clear that there is going to be a trial. There is a feeling of hopelessness among those living in the projects in the suburbs. Racism is found everywhere. Both of these films have ambiguous endings. Not everything in life resolved. Mathieu Kassovitz appeared in both films. He is the bike messenger in the first one, and he played a skinhead in the second. Many actors played in both films. Kassovitz was inspired by American films, Spike Lee's movies and "Taxi Driver," for example. I want to see more of the films that he has directed and/or acted in.