DVD
L'humanité
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Languages
In French, with English subtitles.
Performers
Emmanuel Schotté, Séverine Caneele, Philippe Tullier, Ghislain Ghesquière, Ginette Allègre.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2019]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (148 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
"The transcendent second feature by Bruno Dumont probes the wonder and horror of the human condition through the story of a profoundly alientated police detective who, while investigating the murder of a young girl, experiences jolting, epiphanous moments of emotional and physical connection. Demonstrating Dumont's deftness with nonactors and relentlessly frank depiction of bodies and sexuality, L'humanite is at once an idiosyncratic police procedural and a provocative exploration of the tension between humankind's capacity for compassion and our base, sometimes barbarous animal instincts"--Container.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Bruno Dumont ; new interview with Dumont ; conversation between Dumont and critic Philippe Rouyer from 2014 ; segment from a 2000 episode of the French television Tendances featuring actress Séverine Caneele ; segment from a 1999 French television-news program featuring Dumont ; trailer ; new English subtitle translation.