Humanité

1999, Movie, 2h 29min

The transcendent second feature by Bruno Dumont probes the wonder and horror of the human condition through the story of a profoundly alienated police detective (the indelibly sad-eyed Emmanuel Schotté, winner of an upset best actor prize at Cannes for his first film performance) who, while investigating the murder of a young girl, experiences jolting, epiphanous moments of emotional and physical connection. Demonstrating Dumont’s deftness with nonactors and relentlessly frank depiction of bodies and sexuality, L’HUMANITÉ is at once an idiosyncratic police procedural and a provocative exploration of the tension between humankind’s capacity for compassion and our base, sometimes barbarous animal instincts.

Country: France

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Marie-Thérèse François

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6.8

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Critic William Thomas

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Packed with contradictions, ambiguities and dangerous ideas, this demonstration of the tangibility of evil in a de-sensitised world is guaranteed to provoke.

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