Returned (The)
Original Title
Les Revenants aka: They Came Back- Director: Robin Campillo
- Writer: Robin Campillo; Brigitte Tijou
- Producer: Simon Arnal; Carole Scotta
CGiii Comment
Dead people come back from the afterlife in a small town in provincial France: a slow and silent procession that goes from cemetery to the town. But, no matter how apocalyptic it sounds, the situation is not gruesome or violent: those who return seem lost, as if they are victims of trauma. The mayor of the town decides to reintroduce them to society by giving them menial jobs, the only ones they can do because they are so disoriented. In addition, the returned can reunite with their loved ones. Like Martha, the mayor's dead wife, and young Mathieu, who comes back to Rachel, from whom he was separated by a car accident. But living together will soon become problematic...
Robin Campillo makes his debut in directing with an unusual zombie movie, melancholy and delicate, from which a TV series was made in France. It was presented at Venice in the Horizons section in 2004.
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Cast & Characters
Geraldine Pailhas as Rachel;
Jonathan Zaccai as Mathieu;
Frederic Pierrot as Gardet;
Victor Garrivier as Le Maire;
Catherine Samie as Martha;
Djemel Barek as Isham;
Marie Matheron as Veronique;
Saady Delas as Sylvain;
Guy Herbert as Le Revenant au Blouson Gris;
Catherine Salvini as La Psychologue;
Alain Guillo as Le Directeur de Mathieu;
Dan Herzberg as Le Soldat;
Helene Alexandridis as La Fille du Maire;
Gerard Watkins as La Fils du Maire;
Serge Biavan as Le Representant Medecin DDASS