The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Writing
Zombies as civil servants—bureaucracy meets the afterlife
Direction
Campillo's restraint turns mundane horror into existential ache
Director
Robin Campillo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Campillo later co-created the hit TV series 'The Returned' (Les Revenants), though this 2004 film remains the stranger, more political original. Same premise, zero glamour.
Released during France's debates on immigration and social integration, the film's bureaucratic metaphors for the returned read as pointed commentary on who society deems 'acceptable' to return.
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