Humanité
Fox Lorber Home Video | Release Date: June 16, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Dumont's cinematic style is aggressively physical and philosophical at the same time. It irritates as many viewers as it inspires, but it prompts more thought than ordinary movies ever do. Read full review
91
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
A beautiful and compassionate work, at once stark, sensory and spiritually grasping, that challenges us to forgive even the most monstrous sins. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A film of stunning impact. Read full review
90
Film.comHenry Cabot Beck
Audiences willing to wade knee deep in the muck and mire of the human abyss are advised to seek out Humanité at the local arthouse. Read full review
90
The New York TimesStephen Holden
You probably won't feel comfortable when Humanité is over, but as you leave the theater you will feel more alive than when you entered. Read full review
90
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Dumont's film is unfinished in the sense that some paintings are. Read full review
90
Rolling StonePeter Travers
It's a haunting, hypnotic film that exerts an escalating grip on the heart and the conscience.
88
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
Staggering, gorgeously ambiguous. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Not an easy film and is for those few moviegoers who approach a serious movie almost in the attitude of prayer. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A harsh, spellbinding tale. Read full review
84
Mr. ShowbizMichael Atkinson
Dumont's movie has virtually nothing wrong with it -- aside from the fact that it drives people crazy. Take the leap, but expect no answers. Just like life, as they say. Read full review
80
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Confidently absurd. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
It ought to be seen, because it's a work of moral and spiritual mystery. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
Humanite isn't like any other film: It's uncompromising, eerily affecting and wildly unresolved. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
Frustrating, tedious and yet often compelling. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerDesmond Ryan
While Dumont's movie has its striking scenes, it is doomed to a sense of lethargy and inertia by the kind of people it ponders and the context in which they are placed. Read full review
63
New York PostHanna Brown
Maddeningly pretentious and often slow to the point of tedium, Humanite is also hauntingly original and truly strange. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsOther - Staff
Under that small but growing category of movies that break the mold but that no one but a masochist could sit through is Humanité. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
If only the whole thing didn't collapse in on itself, and quickly become a parody of artistic reach and terminal folly. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
This curiously empty film was awarded the Jury Prize at the 1997 Cannes film festival. Read full review
40
TimeRichard Corliss
Don't ask us why this minimalist drama won prizes last year at Cannes or why it is getting raves in its U.S. release. Read full review
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