Human Nature (2001)

Cautiously Recommended

USA/France/Germany/UK

Feature Film

Director: Michel Gondry

Writer: Charlie Kaufman

Cinematographer: Tim Maurice-Jones

Composer: Graeme Revell

Cast: Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto, Mary Kay Place, Robert Forster, Rosie Perez, Miguel Sandoval

A man who was brought up in isolated wilderness by his father, who thought that he wan an ape, a woman with a rare genetic condition that leaves her entire body covered with hair, and a recently deceased research scientist with a table manners fetish narrate the story of how they all came to meet and how the latter came to meet his demise, in Gondry’s generally entertaining and insightful if tonally botched feature debut. Iain.Stott