L’humanité
The transcendent second feature by Bruno Dumont probes the wonder and horror of the human condition through the story of a profoundly alienated police detective (the indelibly sad-eyed Emmanuel Schotté, winner of an upset best actor prize at Cannes for his first film performance) 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’humanité 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.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Bruno Dumont, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with Dumont
- Conversation between Dumont and critic Philippe Rouyer from 2014
- Segment from a 2000 episode of the French television program Tendances featuring actress Séverine Caneele
- Segment from a 1999 French television-news program featuring Dumont
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Nicholas Elliott
New cover by Vivienne Flesher
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Bruno Dumont, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with Dumont
- Conversation between Dumont and critic Philippe Rouyer from 2014
- Segment from a 2000 episode of the French television program Tendances featuring actress Séverine Caneele
- Segment from a 1999 French television-news program featuring Dumont
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Nicholas Elliott
New cover by Vivienne Flesher
Cast
- Emmanuel Schotté
- Pharaon De Winter
- Séverine Caneele
- Domino
- Philippe Tullier
- Joseph
- Ghislain Ghesquière
- Commandant
- Ginette Allègre
- Eliane
Credits
- Director
- Bruno Dumont
- Written by
- Bruno Dumont
- Executive producer
- Jean Bréhat
- Executive producer
- Rachid Bouchareb
- Produced by
- Muriel Merlin
- Photographed by
- Yves Cape
- Sound by
- Pierre Mertens
- Art direction by
- Marc-Philippe Guerig
- Costumes by
- Nathalie Raoul
- Original music by
- Richard Cuvillier
- Makeup by
- Férouz Zaafour
- Editing by
- Guy Lecorne
- Sound editing by
- Mathilde Muyard
- Sound mix by
- Jean-Pierre Laforce
A scene from L'humanité
