Editor Reviews:

Description:
Bruno Dumont’s (The Life of Jesus) controversial and award-winning film follows a police detective trying to solve a brutal rape and murder of an 11 year-old girl.

Rating : - Reminding Bresson!
Bruno Dumont's sensible and artistic project seems to work out as a heartfelt testimonial in memory of Robert Bresson, who curiously died the same year.

Because L' humanite isn't by far, an easy film to watch. It has a very deliberately slow paced rhythm that may even desperate the most `patient spectator. After the image is exposed, is frozen and underlined to permeate its whole significance into the dramatic structure.

The first scene with the opened objective reveals us the true essence of our main personage. An introverted human being, a police officer who lost his wife and daughter two years ago, is terribly beaten by a dreadful disgrace that shocks the small community, when a child is raped and murdered.

This sensible man knows to conceal his feelings and temptations. He lives with his mother and is almost a neighbour of a very alluring woman whose lover dislikes him. Nevertheless there's a symbiotic relationship encouraged by her every time they decide to get fun.

Slow and progressively every personage will show us its necessities of be loved and estimated. The loneliness of his soul is remarked by the camera over and over. His way of walking, the introverted character and in general the complex web of relations he must face respect the outer social world, the relentless landscapes impregnated of serene beauty contrasts with the bleak hovering atmosphere. Just to think in that absurd death conveys him to the last frontier of the anger and unless cry of indignation and pain.

The last sequence is stu8nning due he is expressing that coveted desire of redemption, although he is aware the level of unforgiving atrocity that crime has represented in the community.

Admirable film that must be seen keeping in mind the poetic dimension is by far from being a guest star, it's the main star.



An emblematic masterwork!