Avis Metacritic

A beautiful and compassionate work, at once stark, sensory and spiritually grasping, that challenges us to forgive even the most monstrous sins.

A film of stunning impact.

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.

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.

Staggering, gorgeously ambiguous.

It ought to be seen, because it's a work of moral and spiritual mystery.

Humanite isn't like any other film: It's uncompromising, eerily affecting and wildly unresolved.

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.

Under that small but growing category of movies that break the mold but that no one but a masochist could sit through is Humanité.

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.