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Humanité
Original Title
L'humanité- Director: Bruno Dumont
- Writer: Bruno Dumont
- Producer: Rachid Bouchareb; Jean Bréhat
CGiii Comment
There is no mystery as to why this was Emmanuel Schotte's one and only film - apart from being completely wrong for the character, he cannot act.
This is hard work without dividends - an exercise in tedium, punctuated with sex scenes - if Dumont's mission was to show humanity in its most animalistic vulgarity - then, he succeeded.
As a film, it is a disaster of self-indulgence and monotonous photography...exasperated by the total lack of talent on screen.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In a town near Lille, melancholy police superintendent Pharaon De Winter lives with his mother. An 11-year-old girl has been raped and murdered. Over the next week, De Winter investigates and grieves, his face nearly expressionless. He bikes, he gardens. He accompanies his neighbors, Joseph and Domino, to dinner and to the seaside; he even observes them in vigorous if not rough coitus. For Domino, sex seems her way of connecting. Does she fancy Pharaon? A plowed field, the sea, Pharaon's flowers, the pudenda of Domino and of the ravaged girl - this mix of images of beauty, evil, and possibility assaults Pharaon as he tries to do his job and hold on to his humanity.
Cast & Characters
Emmanuel Schotte as Pharaon De Winter;
Severine Caneele as Domino;
Philippe Tullier as Joseph;
Ghislain Ghesquere as Police Chief;
Ginette Allegre as Eliane;
Daniel Leroux as Nurse;
Arnaud Brejon de la Lavergnee as Conservationist;
Daniel Petillon as Jean, the cop;
Robert Bunzi as English cop;
Dominique Pruvost as Angry worker;
Jean-Luc Dumont as CRS;
Diane Gray as British traveller;
Paul Gray as British traveller;
Sophie Vercamer as Worker;
Murielle Houche as Worker