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 ExaminerWesley Morris
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
Staggering, gorgeously ambiguous.
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Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
It ought to be seen, because it's a work of moral and spiritual mystery.
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San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
Humanite isn't like any other film: It's uncompromising, eerily affecting and wildly unresolved.
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Philadelphia InquirerDesmond Ryan
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.
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New York Daily News
New York Daily News
Under that small but growing category of movies that break the mold but that no one but a masochist could sit through is Humanité.
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TimeRichard Corliss
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.