Humanité

Humanité (1999)

  • 71% of critics liked it
    (24 reviews)

  • 75% of users liked it
    (893 ratings)

Bruno Dumont drew attention to his work with his first film, La vie de Jesus, which was a realistic portrayal of the miserable existence of people in a small town north of France. His second film, L'humanité, also takes place in Bailleul, the nondescript Flanders town of the previous film.… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Bruno Dumont
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Jun 14, 2000 Limited
On DVD
Feb 13, 2001
Winstar Cinema

Critic Reviews

  • , Entertainment Weekly

    Ought to be seen, because it's a work of moral and spiritual mystery as stubbornly challenging as Gone in 60 Seconds is morally anesthetizing.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    Bruno Dumont's L'Humanite has the outer form of a police movie, but much more inside.

  • Stephen Holden, New York Times

    You probably won't feel comfortable when Humanité is over, but as you leave the theater you will feel more alive than when you entered.

  • Henry Cabot Beck, Film.com

    Audiences willing to wade knee deep in the muck and mire of the human abyss are advised to seek out Humanité at the local arthouse.

  • Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

    Feels like an overly deliberate meta-Bressonian prank.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • familiar s


    I was shockingly surprised when I found that the pace of this award winning movie was far more killing than its content. To say that it's the slowest movie I've ever watched might be an exaggeration, but it surely is the slowest movie I've watched this year. It seemed… More

  • Walter M


    [font=Century Gothic]"Humanite" starts out in a small French village where everybody knows everybody else. An eleven year old girl has been brutally raped and murdered. Police superintendent Pharaon de Winter is on the case...or is he?(To be honest, he certainly is… More

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