L'humanité / un film de Bruno Dumont ; scénario et dialogues, Bruno Dumont ; producteurs délégués, Jean Bréhat et Rachid Bouchareb ; une coproduction 3B Productions, Arte France Cinéma, CRRAV.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out leaflet (10 pages : color illustrations, 17 cm).
Emmanuel Schotté, Séverine Caneele, Philippe Tullier, Ghislain Ghesquière, Ginette Allègre. Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Wide screen (2.35:1). Title from screen credits. Features: New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Bruno Dumont, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack; 2019 interview with Dumont; Conversation between Dumont and critic Philippe Rouyer from 2014; Segment from a 2000 episode of the French television Tendances featuring actress Séverine Caneele; Segment from a 1999 French television-news program featuring Dumont; Trailer; New English subtitle translation; An essay by critic Nicholas Elliott.
Summary:
"The transcendent second feature by Bruno Dumont probes the wonder and horror of the human condition through the story of a profoundly alientated 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'humanite 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"--Container.
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