L'Humanité (1999)
L'humanité
Drama, Mystery • 2h 29m
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, Jean-Luc Dumont, Diane Gray, Paul Gray, Sophie Vercamer, Murielle Houche, Pascaline Guyot, Liliane Facq, Myriam Dehaine, Jean Beulque, Bernard Catrycke, Marthe Vandenberg, Amanda Goemaere, Honorine Douche, Marie-Thérèse Cadet, Denis Claerebout, Suzanne Berteloot, Sylvie Perel, Malik Haquem, Alain Beaufrome, Pierre-Olivier Thery, Frédéric Engelaere, Françoise Blavoet, Chantal Desmettre, Noëlla Froigné, Jocelyne Vasseur, Annie Hennon, Pierre Raes, Pierre Harrisson, Mathieu Daussy, Gaëlle Coppin, Marion Robyn, Laurent Pecqueur, Sébastien Zanetti, Cédric Delplace, Julie Legras, Gregory Duboz, Cedric Camberlyn, Sylvain Backerlandt, Marie-Hélène Aernout, Lucien Hallynck, Andre Geloen, Jean-François Carpentier, Théophile Boidin, Jérôme Pollet, Sébastien Muselet, Gery Laforce, Franck Lesage, Micheline Cerouter, Jacky Hourdouille, Marie-Thérèse François, Leslie Benault, Edwige Benault, Heidelore Kramer, Nicole Willier, Sylvie Verheyde, Pierre Verheyde, Regis Mallard, Famille Janssens, Monique Laurent, Philippe Millet, Patrice Souchet, Florent Souchet, Gregory Ryckewaert, Hamid Bouderja, Daniel Braems, Eric Bailleul, Guy Valpoet, Bernard Vanhaecke, Joël Boulinguez, J.J. Leurette, Michel Vanmeenen, Regis Larridon, Dominique Deroo, Stephanie Wyts, Philippe Duriez, Ivanne Durlez, Alexis Durlez, Noël Debaene, Jean René Delaval, Christophe Muys, Ludovic Cousin, Jacques Gillot, Bernard Marescaux, Sylvain Boulanger, Jean Pierre Doise, Gilles Lelièvre
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Overview
In a quiet little French town, two detectives are tasked with investigating the brutal rape and murder of a preteen girl.
Director: Bruno Dumont
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
(same as all tracks since the DVD)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps
Phenomenal disc, and perhaps the single greatest testament to NexSpec's positive 180 this year. Highlights are beautifully handled and grain structure is fully intact in areas where NexSpec's (and Pixelogic's) encodes would frequently fall apart in 2025 and before then. Criterion BD encode also looks to be robust from linked caps, save for this one frame: https://slow.pics/c/cMjMefmi
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, work done to un-Nolan the 4K master, the first ever appearance of the 35mm mono track on physical media and a new restoration/remastering of the 70mm 6-track mix.
(early pressing has errors of a shot, later pressings fixed)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, new restoration/remastering of the mono mix which should be better than the 1999 WB DVD, revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1987 and for the first time ever on physical media, the film will be in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion Box Set coming on October 20th with FiM encode
DTS:X mix most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD has additional features not found on the 4K Blu-ray
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, new restoration of mono mix which should be better than what was on the WB 4K Blu-ray and 1999 DVD and revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1971.
WB 4K 5.1: a remix but has higher fidelity
Mono: 4K Blu-ray/1999 DVD
Director: Stanley Kubrick
US Cut: WB 4K Blu-ray
International Cut: Old 2007 Europe Blu-ray
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, both the US and the International Cut, new restoration/remastering of the mono mix which should be better than the 1999 WB DVD, revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1980 and for the first time ever on physical media, the film will be in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
No Blu-ray or DVD release has presented the movie in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 for the US cut or 1.66:1 for the International cut.
The packaging on the back of the 4K Blu-ray incorrectly states it as 1.85:1 when the movie is actually 1.78:1 as is the original Blu-ray.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode
Kino BD has original stereo mix.
Director: Terry Jones
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
The Criterion BD, which is sold separately, has a clunky encode unlike the Criterion UHD, even if it plays better in motion than the caps would suggest. Still, provided you're equipped to play 4K discs, UHD or bust for this one. https://slow.pics/c/hmDYlKgE
More Drama on Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Flicker Alley 4K confirmed for 2027 https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24404584&postcount=1
MoC audio is better https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=225532&page=3
Directors: Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell
Imprint 4K Blu-ray
Sources: filmalert101.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
FiM encode and none of the low-pass filtering present on the Criterion 4K, resulting in more detail and better handling of highlights on Imprint https://filmalert101.blogspot.com/2026/09/on-4k-uhd-david-hare-rhapsodizes-over.html?m=1
Director: Yasujirō Ozu
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