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L'Humanité (1999) by Bruno Dumont.

Posted by tinear (A) on July 30, 2006 at 07:13:58

The murder of a young girl in a beautiful French village is NOT the interest of Dumont's film. Rather, he uses the crime as an apertif to his real subject: love or the lack of it between human beings.
I hate being hit over the head with "deep meanings" which too many French directors take as their divine right to express. Just write a philosophic tract and be done with it.
Anyhow, Schotté, the lead, does a Gallic impersonation of Forest Gump, without Gump's good humor or electrifying personality.
This is the second French film I've recently seen in which the actor did nothing. Stoicism is a valid philosophy but in an actor it may disguise a lack of craft. I find I care not a whit for such a vapid jellyfish.
There also hasn't been a less attractive romantic female lead in any major film I can recall.

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