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Information
- Year
- 2001
- Runtime
- 96 min.
- Director
- Michel Gondry
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Rating *
- 6.4
- Votes *
- 14,193
- Checks
- 1,187
- Favs
- 49
- Dislikes
- 36
- Favs/checks
- 4.1% (1:24)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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matsflaaten
This is a great, absurd and enjoyable movie with good humour on several levels! 3 years 11 months ago -
Siskoid
Before Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman collaborated on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the made Human Nature together. It's something of a misfire, either because Gondry isn't in yet the director he will become, or because Kaufman's script doesn't have the usual opportunities for absurdist art direction, I'm not sure. Going by the first image, of two mice being attacked by a bird, the film is ostensibly about the impossibility of going down two roads at once, in terms of the story, following instinct or societal norms. But it gets sort of lost along the way in what is more or less a screwball sex comedy about a hirsute woman (Patricia Arquette), a man raised as an ape (Rhys Ifans), and the psychologist who tries to civilize them both (the problematic Tim Robbins, playing a kind of caricature). Even if it doesn't quite work, I would rather scripts like Kaufman's get produced than not. Even his failures are more interesting than most people's successes. 6 years 3 months ago