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Writer:
Bruno Dumont (writer)
Release Date:
10 September 1999 (Norway)
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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
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3 wins
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2 nominations
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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)
(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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A fascinating catholic horror film
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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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148 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
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)
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L'Humanité is undoubtedly the best French movie I've seen this year. It's somewhere between Robert Bresson and David Lynch, which is quite uncommon. This is a suspense movie, but the nature of the suspense is metaphysical. The spectator, like the hero (Pharaon de Winter), keeps on following false leads as he tries to discover WHO the murderer could be. He even suspects Pharaon himself to be guilty (which, in a way, is true, if we admit we're all guilty). The characters all seem to be on the thin border line between humanity and animality. Pharaon needs a physical contact with human beings and animal alike; most of the time, men and women are filmed as if they were beasts and vice versa. But the film bears no contempt for anyone. It's not realistic but, on the other hand, it has nothing in common with 99% of the fictions we go and see usually. There is something about empathy in L'Humanité that I had never felt in cinema before. If I had to connect it with a genre, it would definitely be an "ethological genre movie"… The screenplay is brilliant, the actors are so far away from what we expect from actors that they seem to come from another planet until we understand it's actually ours. Here is the riddle of L'Humanité: we live down here among strangers, and the nearer other people seem to be, the farther they actually are. L'Humanité is not made to entertain. If you're not looking for something else in films, don't waste your time, it has nothing in common with The End of Days.