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      Humanity

      Released Jun 14, 2000 2h 28m Drama List
      Reviews 70% 250+ Ratings Audience Score Pharaon is consumed with love for his neighbor, Domino, and passively tags along with her and her boyfriend, Joseph. He even watches them make love. Then Joseph comes under suspicion for a brutal murder. These mundane events slowly and cumulatively disclose Pharaon's despair, and the fear of his own guilt, a universal guilt we all share of our hideous nature. Read More Read Less

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      David Nusair Reel Film Reviews A seriously padded-out, self-indulgent work... Rated: 2/4 Jun 20, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member year s/b 1999 not 1998 c'mon people let's get it together Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Now this is one of the more effective movies you will ever see. All because of two images you will probably never see in an American production let alone elsewhere. Philospher-turned filmmaker Bruno Dumont shocked the world with his second film that is long and tedious, yet captivating and masterful. The story is about Pharaon De Winter, the police superintendent of a small French town. Right from the get-go he is running away from something. He has witnessed something awful and this image will haunt him throughout the duration of the film. He is investigating the rape-murder of an 11-year-old girl. Dumont doesn't hesitate with this material. He gives it to us raw and directly, graphic images of the cadaver affect us as an audience as well as our already vulnerable main character. Pharaon awkwardly lives his normal life as well as his police life while trying to deal with these images. He is a shy man, a man who has love to give to his friend Domino, who is sexually active with her boyfriend Joseph. These three form the triangle of main characters and it is their actions we follow, however Pharaon is the main star of the film. Many people will be bored to death of this film. Mainly because their perceptions are not ready for what they are about to experience with this film. It is a neat introduction to Bruno Dumont's style and his direct approach to everything. Long shots of nothing represent everything, it is a very demanding movie. And those who can manage to sit through the 2 and a half hour runtime while getting something valuable out of the plot and overall message will not be disappointed. This is a magnificent film in that it shocks and leaves its audience in awe. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Painfully long and slow, the idea of it works, but it's not entertaining as a movie. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Painfully long and slow, the idea of it works, but it's not entertaining as a movie. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Dumont is a philosopher and film-maker, but not a cinephile, so the tempo of the film is more likely down to his own "genuflections to ontology" than any Tarkovskian influence. The combination of astounding realist performances from non-actors, commensurate to the oddity of Dumont's characters, written half-formed and surreal, has the somnambulistic effect of bringing us closer to their reflection on horror and its relation to care (the being of Dasein) than to their factual predicament. The plot is sparse and quite as realist, while the film-making technique is formalist and quite fine. Probably better enjoyed in the cinema for this reason. Pharaon's bicycle ride is breathtaking. The film demands a meditative stance from the viewer, and it needs to wash over you, rather than be interrogated hermeneutically. It demands patience and an openness to experience. It probably helps to have, or to have known someone who has, seen a death, particularly of such horror, in order to pick up how effectively the film does capture humanity. Dumont does not make films "to entertain", but to provoke. This is a suitable goal, because I don't think he has it in him to entertain. The man spent ten years filming charts and graphs, CEO speeches, production lines, factory machines. He has a great formal skill, and has exercised his ontological muscles enough to find the emotion in the experience of seeing a mechanical operation. Good art? Yes, "a provocative, if slightly puzzling experience." Not fun. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member The portentous title should have been a clue, but good god, watching nothing happen for 2h 20 minutes (even when interspersed with occasional vaginal close ups) must try the patience of even the most devout arthouse beardstroker. It's not that it's badly done, it's just... why do it at all? I guess 'cos it's a lot easier to make this than it is Die Hard. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Severine Caneele as Domino in Winstar's Humanite Philippe Tullier, Severine Caneele and Emmanuel Schotte in Winstar's Humanite Emmanuel Schotte and Philippe Tullier in Winstar's Humanite Bruno Dumont, director of Winstar's Humanite Emmanuel Schotte as Pharaon De Winter in Winstar's Humanite Humanity (1999) View more photos

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      Synopsis Pharaon is consumed with love for his neighbor, Domino, and passively tags along with her and her boyfriend, Joseph. He even watches them make love. Then Joseph comes under suspicion for a brutal murder. These mundane events slowly and cumulatively disclose Pharaon's despair, and the fear of his own guilt, a universal guilt we all share of our hideous nature.
      Director
      Bruno Dumont
      Screenwriter
      Bruno Dumont
      Distributor
      Winstar Cinema
      Production Co
      C.R.R.A.V, Arte France Cinema, Le Studio Canal +, 3B Productions, Centre National de la Cinematographie, Procirep
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jun 14, 2000, Original
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $113.5K
      Runtime
      2h 28m
      Sound Mix
      Dolby Stereo, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, Surround
      Aspect Ratio
      Scope (2.35:1)