Humanité
(1999)
★ 6.7 IMDb · 119 votes
Year: 1999
Runtime: 141 мин
Country: France
Director: Bruno Dumont
Cast: Emmanuel Schotté, Séverine Caneele, Philippe Tullier, Ghislain Ghesquère, Ginette Allègre, Darius, Arnaud Brejon de la Lavergnee, Daniel Petillon, Robert Bunzi, Dominique Pruvost
Plot
In a quiet little French town, two detectives are tasked with investigating the brutal rape and murder of a preteen girl.
In a town near Lille, melancholy police superintendent Pharaon De Winter lives with his mother. An 11-year-old girl has been raped and murdered. Over the next week, De Winter investigates and grieves, his face nearly expressionless. He bikes, he gardens. He accompanies his neighbors, Joseph and Domino, to dinner and to the seaside; he even observes them in vigorous if not rough coitus. For Domino, sex seems her way of connecting. Does she fancy Pharaon? A plowed field, the sea, Pharaon's flowers, the pudenda of Domino and of the ravaged girl - this mix of images of beauty, evil, and possibility assaults Pharaon as he tries to do his job and hold on to his humanity.