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De humani corporis fabrica

  • 2022
  • 12 avec avertissement
  • 1h 55m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
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De humani corporis fabrica (2022)
Focuses on five hospitals in northern Paris neighborhoods. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others.
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Focuses on five hospitals in northern Paris neighborhoods. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others.Focuses on five hospitals in northern Paris neighborhoods. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others.Focuses on five hospitals in northern Paris neighborhoods. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others.

  • Directors
    • Lucien Castaing-Taylor
    • Verena Paravel
  • Writers
    • Lucien Castaing-Taylor
    • Verena Paravel
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    808
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Lucien Castaing-Taylor
      • Verena Paravel
    • Writers
      • Lucien Castaing-Taylor
      • Verena Paravel
    • 5User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
    • 92Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 18 nominations total

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    1patrickdentan

    So unpleasant !

    Ugly images, indulgence in the shocking, creepy and disturbing, aggressive sound and often incomprehensible dialogues, ... The movie goes from one looong and creepy situation to the other, pressing without any subtlety on the disturbing aspect and wallowing in it. The medical aspect is also not interesting because no context is given, no explanation on what we are seeing for example as operations or organs. For my part, I also often had to turn my head and close my eyes in front of certain images that were really physically unbearable.

    I don't think it's possible to make a film more unpleasant to watch.
    7derek-duerden

    Amazing What We Can Do Nowadays...

    Considering that once upon a time it was thought that simply touching the beating heart would cause it to stop (and thus cause death), it's quite staggering to realise the amount of intervention that the human body can take, actually.

    Not for the squeamish, obviously, but for me the scenes included here of inserting a plastic lens into an eye (presumably after cataract surgery), and literally screwing a metal rod into a spine (presumably to correct curvature) were amazing demonstrations of now-routine applications of technology - not to mention the ubiquitous use of keyhole surgery, and micro-cameras and instruments.

    As a documentary, this dispenses with third-person voiceover, so one just has to infer context from the comments of the medical staff and patients as they go about and undergo the various processes, and you just have to "go with it" (or turn away).

    Fascinating.
    9samxxxul

    Pathological Procedures: Visceral & Kaleidoscopic View Of Human Body Reduced To Scalpel Blade & More..

    "I am convinced we are all voyeurs. It's part of the detective thing. We want to know secrets and we want to know what goes on behind those windows." -David Lynch, interviewed by Newsday, 1997. I wanted to begin with this quote as the line basically sums up my entire experience and evokes both awe and a grim feeling.

    Before the film "De humani corporis fabrica" I was familiar with the filmography and worldview of director duo Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, I saw only two of their films "Leviathan" and "Caniba", and I confess, based on the assessment of only these films, I had very contradictory feeling about the style. After the first viewing of Caniba, I did not like it much and since the weird, uncanny, experimental cinema is my realm i mostly swim in. I felt the cinephiles hype didn't seem justified for "Caniba" but with their latest i must say the duo testing unorthodox methods of shooting and pushing the boundaries of what Cinema can and should be is commendable to create their own space.

    A documentary on health system, a shockumentary, body horror, slapstick comedy and a few other tags that "De humani corporis fabrica" falls under, still cannot summarize all of its significance and genre nature for example the last sequence of doctors in the bar and the mutiple motifs in the scene. Taking inspiration from Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) 16th-century anatomist, physician, and author of one of the famous book De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543), the director duo have created a canvas that causes shock and awe. The surgery footages is presented so real with Cronenberg symbolism which literally permeates every frame.

    Like i said the multi-genre feel instantly knocks the mind out of a comfortable slumber. It will be contrasting when surgeons perform operations when human body is reduced to scalpel blade, man playing god, ranting, discussing about the probability and possibility of the surgery. A Kaleidoscopic look at how human beings reborn after the anatomized, excoriated surgery of disfigurement combined with 21st century medical technology. The camera work is brilliant, it is visceral to witness all the colors they make when it turns macabre with every detail shown on the screen. Shocking to see behind the scenes of the health system, the crisis and many more commentary. The avant-garde shift in the Bar sequence reminded me of The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein (2001) which i want to highlight. Do check out my review for the later, i consider it to be one of the greatest films ever made. Finally, i am not ready to revisit it for second viewing at the moment but will check it out sometime later and it might not have the same impact on me, maybe even stronger.

    To summarize, those who accustomed to seeing Mondo films, Aroma Planning/ Baroque Studio and Shockumentaries, also those who watched Kiyotaka Tsurisaki's works, Susumu Saegusa films, Der Weg nach Eden (1995) by Robert-Adrian Pejo, John Alan Schwartz's Faces of Death (1978), A Certain Kind of Death (2003), Damon Fox's Faces of Death, Stan Brakhage's The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971) will appreciate this unsettling piece of work.
    1whilhelm

    Boring collage of HD endoscopy

    First of all, I clarify that I am a recently graduated doctor (I am in my residency period) and I found this movie by chance after so many complimentary comments. I don't understand the praising at this... movie. Or experiment. Or uninspired collage. Probably that's the best definition. There are very long takes where practically nothing happens. There are procedures showed in "medias res"; That is, when it has already started and without any kind of explanation about what and why. The scientific talk (the rare one there is) has already started and with only vagueness, since the audio (messy and ugly) is just loose ramblings from doctors and nurses. There are extreme close-up shots that add absolutely nothing. It's almost two hours of nothing. Others might have loved it, I feel like I wasted my time.

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      The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight program at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. It was also screened in the Wavelengths program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, and in the main slate of the 2022 New York Film Festival.
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      Referenced in Radio Dolin: 12 Best Movies of the Cannes Film Festival 2022 (2022)

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    • Release date
      • January 11, 2023 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Switzerland
      • United States
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • La fabrique du corps humain
    • Production companies
      • Norte Productions
      • CG Cinéma
      • Rita Productions
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      • $2,279
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      1 hour 55 minutes
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      • 1.78 : 1

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