Pas une critique!

Vu sur ARTE, Le carnaval humain de Bruno Dumont 2/5

« Cette humanité est la qualité humaine d'un homme et d'un individu [...]. Moi ce qui m'intéresse, c'est de filmer les individus, j'essaie pas de saisir le genre humain. »
― B.Dumont

A film that does its best to not tell a story, unlike its predecessor that simply wasn't trying.

What is there to find in L'humanité? The same as in La vie de Jésus, but with the excuse of a criminal investigation, a raped & killed young girl being the starting element (just like P'tit Quinquin would later). And some weird happenings.

I have no idea what the film wanted (aside from its quasi-animal documentary approach). To talk about human existence?
But I'm sure the two central performances were willingly engineered the way they look. The main actor especially is very peculiar, giving an impression of a child stuck somewhere in its development, at time absent-minded yet always watching, "feeling" the earth, feeling the people. Something the audience will have a hard time accepting for a police officer in charge of an investigation.
(The actor got the Best Actor Award at Cannes, along the female actress.)

It's, again, pursuing some sort of spiritual experience I failed to see (aside from the hero's obvious "saint"-like antics, forgiving and floating) :

« L'humanité is a tragedy because it contains the painful emergence, slow, brown and carnal, of a dazzled and mystical consciousness. »
― B.Dumont

Visually, the movie offers again some fine views, more pictural ones this time (almost painting-like), without becoming a collection of beautiful landscapes..

Is it a masterpiece beyond my grasp? Maybe.
www.frenchfilms.org/review/l-humanite-1999.html
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/lhumanite-2000

Score: ?/10
Enjoyment: 1/5
Never before had I seen a character crying shown from its vagina.