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They Came Back

Original title: Les Revenants
  • 20042004
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 42m
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They Came Back (2004)
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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... Read allThe 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.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.
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    • Robin Campillo
    • Robin Campillo
    • Brigitte Tijou
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    • Géraldine Pailhas
    • Jonathan Zaccaï
    • Frédéric Pierrot
    • Robin Campillo
    • Robin Campillo
    • Brigitte Tijou
  • Stars
    • Géraldine Pailhas
    • Jonathan Zaccaï
    • Frédéric Pierrot
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    • 54Critic reviews
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    Géraldine Pailhas
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    • Rachel
    Jonathan Zaccaï
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    • Mathieu
    Frédéric Pierrot
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    • Gardet
    Victor Garrivier
    • Le maire
    Catherine Samie
    Catherine Samie
    • Martha
    Djemel Barek
    • Isham
    Marie Matheron
    Marie Matheron
    • Véronique
    Saady Delas
    • Sylvain
    Guy Herbert
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    Catherine Salvini
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    Alain Guillo
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    Dan Herzberg
    Dan Herzberg
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    Hélène Alexandridis
    • La fille du maire
    Gérard Watkins
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    Serge Biavan
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      The plot is very similar to the Brazilian novel "Incidente em Antares" (Incident in Antares) by Erico Verissimo, which was published in 1971. A mini-series based on the book, Antares Incident (1994), was released in Brazil in 1994.
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    I was stunned by this one - from the opening sequence on I was completed transfixed. The slow and melancholy pacing, the morose blue filters, the long silences and the fixed stares, all combined to create a spacious and powerfully - almost painfully - introspective viewing experience.

    This is a remarkable meditation on the Zombie sub-genre as well, although clearly partaking of something quite well beyond that more limited scope. No corpse-eating ghouls here: just a fascinating "what if" that raises painful questions about what we do with death and the dead in our own collective imagination. In this particular return of the repressed, being forced to mull over the tedious, bureaucratic details of what would have to happen if hundreds of millions of dead people suddenly reappeared in our midst actually serves to engage the viewer in a very personal way. I found myself interrogating myself over and over about what kind of response I would have in a similar situation, and identifying with the film's protagonists on all sorts levels, and the experience was quite moving.

    All the nuances of grief and mourning were shockingly subtle and well-conceived, as well as superbly acted.

    The whole time I was watching I kept thinking: "Thank god for the French!" Such a movie could simply never arise from Hollywood.
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    • Aug 26, 2005

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      • October 27, 2004 (France)
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      • Haut et Court
      • France 3 Cinéma
      • Gimages Développement
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