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Director:

Bruno Dumont

Writer:

Bruno Dumont (writer)

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Release Date:

10 September 1999 (Norway) more

Genre:

Drama | Mystery 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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Smalltown Blues more (55 total)


Cast

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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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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Humanité (USA)
Humanity (Europe: English title)
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Runtime:

148 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Company:

3B Productions more


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6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Smalltown Blues, 12 April 2000
6/10
Author: edward_tan from Singapore

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.

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