Human Nature
Michel Gondry
Nathan, an obsessional scientist and his girlfriend Lila discovers Puff, a main who grew up in the wild. While Nathan teaches the wild man the civilised world, Lila fights to preserve the virgin innocence of Puff, who might be the last free man...
With : Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans, Tim Robbins, Ken Magee, Sy Richardson, David Warshofsky, Hilary Duff
Screenplay : Charlie Kaufman
Image : Tim Maurice-Jones
Sound : Francois Blaignan
Music : Graeme Revell
Editing : Russell Icke
Decors : Gene Serdena
Screenplay : Charlie Kaufman
Image : Tim Maurice-Jones
Sound : Francois Blaignan
Music : Graeme Revell
Editing : Russell Icke
Decors : Gene Serdena
Production : Fine Line Features
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
Written by Charlie Kaufman and produced by Spike Jonze, the same people who were behind Being John Malkovich, Human Nature is just as off beat. The films contrasts naturalism and artifice, in a general criticism of consumer society, the form of the film clearly being influenced by video clips: a combination of craft and technology. Michel Gondry is a real genius who revolutionised the world of video clips in the 1990s (Björk, Massive Attack, IAM, Radiohead...) and advertising. A three-voiced story built up totally on flash-backs, the film sometimes appears to be a philosophical fable on theme of nature vs nurture. "To a certain extent, Charlie Kaufman gently mocks this good savage and above all Truffaut's film, L'Enfant sauvage (The Wild Child) which is a big lie when you know the actual story of that poor boy in Nîmes" (Michel Gondry).