Word: humaine
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...documentary or overtly political films, Louis Malle's Humain, trop humain--the title is cribbed from the French for Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human--succeeds in a way probably never intended. The journalistic techniques of Malle's immense study of Phantom India have here been restricted to one French automobile factory. An effort is made to depict the process by which the cars are produced, in brief, at the beginning of the film, from steel sheet to test track, and then studies of individual workers at different stages of the process are shot in elaborate detail. The film verges...
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