Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

brandonburtner-1 This movie is actually the worst film I have ever seen. I have nothing against foreign or artistic films, I am actually a big fan, but this was not artistic at all. It was just an extremely poorly made movie masquerading as artistic. It was as if Bruno Dumont realized that he made a horrible movie and just decided that if he claimed he tried to make it artistic that would excuse his atrocious directing ability. This may actually be the poorest directed movie of all time. The amount of time spent on some shots is so outrageous that it actually made me mad. The problem is this movie should have been a short film and was made into an extremely long feature. Some scenes that could have been 2 seconds clips are filmed practically in real time. Most of the scenes shouldn't even be in the movie. There are random sex scenes that make no sense and have no point. Most of the movie is actually pointless. The vast majority of the film had nothing to do with the plot. I will never watch another movie from Bruno Dumont for the rest of my life, and I will never get back the 148 minutes that he stole from me through Humanite.

jsmithjamessmith The main character, Pharaon, has suffered a loss of his wife and child in the pre-film past. He deals with with by just shutting down emotionally. Too long a movie, too much time spent on Pharaon's inexpressive face, too much "road time" (one of the banes of TV: filling time with moving cars, trains, etc.) Long scenes of him doing trivial - sometimes totally inexplicable, nonsensically trivial - actions with neither reason or emotion. His best friends Joseph and Domino are not much more, their relationship based on sex (this film perhaps gives new meaning to the phrase "gratuitous sex"); Domino and Pharaon's mother are the two characters who display some emotion, but not much. It is hard to tell with all the characters in this movie: is it indifferent acting, indifferent writing, or simply indifferent characters portrayed by good writing and good acting. Characters in this film talk very little to anyone; it's little wonder their emotionally isolated, which is all the more bizarre because it's clear they live in a neighborhood where the people are friendly and know each other.

Claudio Carvalho In France, in the small-town of Bailleul , the weird, melancholy, lonely and widow police superintendent Pharaon De Winter (Emmanuel Schotté) is investigating the brutal murder of an eleven years old girl, who was raped while returning from school. Pharaon lives with his mother, and spends most of his leisure time with his neighbor Domino (Séverine Caneele) and her fiancé Joseph (Phileppe Tullier). Pharaon feels a kind of platonic love with Domino. The police department staff is being pressed by Lille and Paris to solve the crime and a strike of the workers of a factory. This French low budget movie is developed in a too slow pace and has very human characters. I liked it a lot, but I recognize that audiences only used to watch American movies will not like 'L' Humanité'. In Hollywood, this 142 minutes running time film would be an American 30 minutes short story. But lovers of cinema as art will certainly appreciate this simple but well directed story. The trauma with the character of Pharaon, being consumed by his grieving for the death of wife and daughter, by his repressed love for Domino, by the scene of the brutal death of the child and by the pressure of the command of the police, is amazingly performed by Emmanuel Schotté. I did not understand the kiss of Pharaon in the lips of Joseph in the end of the story. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): 'A Humanidade' ('The Humanity')

bodhisattva13 I started watching this film at about midnight. Even though it was 148 minutes long and I was becoming increasingly tired, I couldn't switch it off. I can't explain what about this film appeals to me. Especially since it isn't as much about a manhunt for the killer and rapist of an 11-year-old girl as how disconnected we all are from one another.The lead actor conveys this melancholic, sweetness that makes a person want to embrace him. He's so filled with sadness and ennui. This really is such a deeply sad film. His neighbor, too, wastes her time with an immature and idiotic boyfriend. Their frequent sex scenes aren't as much erotic as desperate, feverish attempts to feel something.Another film that had a deep effect upon me was Mike Leigh's "All or Nothing." That's another slice-of-life, roll the cameras and then pretend they aren't there kind of film. I think what makes these types of films resonant with me is all the artifice seems stripped away. Faced with a mirror of myself and my society, I can't help but ache and feel hollow.As someone else said, few people will recommend this type of film, although critics invariably hail it. The reason - because this is more true than "Die Hard" or any other equally vacuous Hollywood blockbuster. I don't go to the cinema to be entertained. I want to see life and from that understand myself and my world better. "L'Humanite," which not surprisingly is written and directed by a philosopher, accomplishes those objectives.