Another Brutal Dumont Mystery

Now finally "dared to" watch my third movie by Bruno Dumont

HUMANITY = L'HUMANITÉ
France 1999

from before both Twentynine Palms and Flandres
which I have some kind of love/hate-relationship to
and this was maybe even more so




To try to make the picture more clear
here's some directors I find Dumont (or at least this movie)
to have most common traits with :


a bit like David Lynch
in the mysteriousness, where some main characters seems to be almost monsters


a bit like David Cronenberg
in the socio-biological themes close to body (parts), discovering the borders between life and death


a bit like Robert Bresson
in the emotional potentialities, showed by zooming in on small gestures and symbolic signs, but possible to confuse with complete lack of emotion


a bit like Roy Andersson
in long, still, silent scenes... and long, still, silent scenes... portraying what can be caricatures (though much less comic in Bruno's works)


a bit like Dardenne brothers
in a narrow social context with foremost physical forces, a certain part of ordinary life


a bit like Quentin Tarantino
in the abruptness combined with chilly, maybe immoral characters


a bit like Pier Paolo Pasolini
in a childish or even animalistic kind of frame with concrete, non-refined acting


a bit like Alfred Hitchcock
in psychological turns around what could have been a plain detective story, but is rather about motives or experiences than intrigue or results




whole movie

3 Joy (Happy)

6 Conflict (Grumpy)

5 Thrill (Sneezy)

6 Process (Sleepy)

1 Humour (Dopey)

2 Idea (Doc)

7 Mystery (Bashful)

2 Beauty (SnowWhite)

= 32



I give from 1 to 7 stars
again by 8 aspects of dwarfs
they become maximum 56 stars



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