Les revenants (2004)

Director:

Robin Campillo

Writers:

Robin Campillo (writer)
Brigitte Tijou (writer)

Release Date:

27 October 2004 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy

Tagline:

Why have the dead suddenly returned...

Plot:

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. |

Plot Keywords:

Dead | Death | Husband Wife Reunion | Zombie | Little Boy

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Géraldine Pailhas	...	Rachel
Jonathan Zaccaï	...	Mathieu
Frédéric Pierrot	...	Gardet
Victor Garrivier	...	Le maire
Catherine Samie	...	Martha
Djemel Barek	...	Isham
Marie Matheron	...	Véronique
Saady Delas	...	Sylvain
Guy Herbert	...	Le revenant au blouson gris
Catherine Salvini	...	La psychologue
Alain Guillo	...	Le directeur de Mathieu
Dan Herzberg	...	Le soldat
Hélène Alexandridis	...	La fille du maire
Gérard Watkins	...	Le fils du maire
Serge Biavan	...	Le représentant médecin DDASS

Also Known As:

They Came Back (International: English title)

Runtime:

102 min | France:105 min | Argentina:105 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

France

Company:

Haut et Court

Drama not action

You have to know that, before watching the movie, because some might think, this is another "zombie" movie. Well it's (apparently) not! It's difficult to describe, but I'll try to, without giving away anything!

This is a drama, about people that were dead coming back to "life" ... or are they? The one common thing, this has with zombie movies, is that you don't get/have any kind of explanation, why this is happening. But that's it! The people that come back, are not (human)flesh eaters. The real problem, is how can their relatives deal with the fact, that their loved ones are back (although not in the same state of mind, as before) and what can they do with those people? When there is no more room in the shelter home, the dead will walk the streets(?), so to speak or paraphrase a famous "Dawn of the Dead" quote.

But the fact, that this seems to be an action free companion piece to your regular undead movies, doesn't strike me as so bad ... what really got me though was the fact, that they got completely bananas at the end of the movie and went in a direction, that they shouldn't have gone ... They compromised everything they had achieved up to that point, any kind of credibility and hence the bad ending does ruin an otherwise good movie ...