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L'Humanité = Humanity
Title
L'Humanité = Humanity / A 3B Production, Arte France Cinema, CRRAV, with the participation of le Centre National de la Cinématographie ; a film by Bruno Dumont ; producer, Jean Bréhat and Rachid Bouchareb ; written and directed by Bruno Dumont.
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out leaflet (10 pages : color illustrations, 17 cm).
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.
Wide screen (2.35:1).
Title from screen credits.
Features: New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Bruno Dumont, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack; 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; An essay by critic Nicholas Elliott.
Director of photography, Yves Cape ; editor, Guy Lecorne ; music, Richard Cuvillier.
French dialogue with optional subtitles in English.
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 (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'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.
Variant and related titles
Humanity
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
July 09, 2019
Series
Criterion collection ; 981
Credits
Director of photography, Yves Cape ; editor, Guy Lecorne ; music, Richard Cuvillier.
Cast
Emmanuel Schotté, Séverine Caneele, Philippe Tullier, Ghislain Ghesquière, Ginette Allègre.
System details note
Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio); DTS-HD 5.1 surround.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Videorecording number
CC3040BD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Detective and mystery films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Detective and mystery films.
Police films.
Feature films.
Also listed under
3B Productions, production company.
Arte France cinéma (Firm), production company.
Centre régional de ressources audiovisuelles, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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