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 L'Humanite (DVD)
Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1999 / Director: Bruno Dumont / Actors: Schotte. Emmanuel, Severine Caneele ... / ... more  L'Humanite (DVD) ... DVD released 22 May, 2006 at Artificial Eye / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PALNewest Review: ... are graphic and realistic but bare no real relevance to this slow mood piece of a movie. Near the end of the hundred minutes ... more ... you get the impression that it was made just for some naughty sex and art house nonsense reasons. Its slow and moody with little background music and long silences that area metaphor for his growing internal anger over the meaningless killing of a young child so brutally. He also has a growing crush on his busty factory fodder neighbor who is sympathetic to his loss and loathing of society. Her boyfriend is a typical moron who listens to pumping dance and tecno music for every occasion, including driving the school b...more |
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by - written on 03.01.02
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L,HUMANITE....Artificail Eye films.1999 Renting French films is like going to the dogtrack. Everyone knows whose going to win the race before hand but you may occasionally pick a wrong un. And Humanite` is that whippet that hasn’t got mustard on its tuckers. It’s a bleak look at small town French life centered around an unrealistically shy police detective and his voyeuristic relationship with the dim useless young working class couple next door. After a failed marriage and a lost child the thirtysomething going nowhere copper who lives with his mum is put on a case of child murder. This effects him greatly seeing a young child mutilated ...
Gratuitious shots of intimate body parts or A.R.T? (268 words)
by violentviolet - written on 26.09.00 (Very useful, 141 readings)
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L'Humanite, recent winner of the Cannes film festival, is not an easy film to categorise. Right from the outset you have a sense that this is a film which could only have been made outside Hollywood. The best way to describe it is as an anti-detective movie: the lead character is a hopeless Superintendant in a French backwater, haunted by the horrific rape and murder of an 11 year old girl. One of the film's opening shots shows her mutilated vagina. Is this a justifiable part of the plot or just for shock value? A little of both. Although the film is undoubtably beautifully shot, what little plot there is moves forward at an incredibly slow pace. ...
