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Under that small but growing category of movies that break the mold but that no one but a masochist could sit through is Humanité.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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Philadelphia Inquirer by Desmond 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.
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San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
Humanite isn't like any other film: It's uncompromising, eerily affecting and wildly unresolved.
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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.
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Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
A film of stunning impact.
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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
It ought to be seen, because it's a work of moral and spiritual mystery.
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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.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
A beautiful and compassionate work, at once stark, sensory and spiritually grasping, that challenges us to forgive even the most monstrous sins.
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The New York Times by Stephen 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.
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San Francisco Examiner by Wesley Morris
Staggering, gorgeously ambiguous.