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Director:
Writer:
Bruno Dumont (writer)
Release Date:
10 September 1999 (Norway) more
Plot:
When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ask more questions than it answers. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 2 nominations more
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(2 articles)
Review | Faith No More: Bruno Dumont’s “Hadewijch”
(From indieWIRE. 12 September 2009, 4:44 PM, PDT)
Surprises FLY Out Of The Cannes
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 24 May 1999)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Emmanuel Schotté | ... | Pharaon De Winter |
| Séverine Caneele | ... | Domino |
| Philippe Tullier | ... | Joseph |
| Ghislain Ghesquère | ... | Police Chief |
| Ginette Allegre | ... | Eliane |
| Daniel Leroux | ... | Nurse |
| Arnaud Brejon de la Lavergnee | ... | Conservationist |
| Daniel Petillon | ... | Jean, the cop |
| Robert Bunzi | ... | English cop |
| Dominique Pruvost | ... | Angry worker |
| Jean-Luc Dumont | ... | CRS |
| Diane Gray | ... | British traveller |
| Paul Gray | ... | British traveller |
| Sophie Vercamer | ... | Worker |
| Murielle Houche | ... | Worker |
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Also Known As:
Humanité (USA)
Humanity (Europe: English title)
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148 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Argentina:18 | Canada:R | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Hong Kong:III | Japan:R-18 | South Korea:18 (DVD rating) | Sweden:15 | UK:18
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Featured in "Kinomagazin: Das Schöne ist mein Dämon - Der Filmemacher Bruno Dumont" (2007) more
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What's this about quiet small towns that so capture the curiosity and imagination of film-makers. Here we have another study by the director of the Life of Jesus (which incidentally is about a small town too)which shows, from the surface, how a Police Superintendant copes with the brutal rape and murder of a young girl. With this as a background, the film proceeds to show the aimlessness in the protanganist's life and his relationships with the people around him.
While the pace of the film is slow, you do get a feeling that such an approach is necessary. As such, you get many long shots. You also get shots that are very upfront and will no doubt make many in the audience feel uneasy.
There will be many different comments about the show. I heard some French guys coming out of the cinema and lauding it as "Pure Cinema" while others have complained that it was pretentious. For me, I thought it was boring.