Synopsis
The dead have returned to earth in droves. Throughout the world, thousands of these dead have left the cemeteries behind them and headed for the city. Their exodus gives rise to a fundamental question: just how can society accommodate all these people returning from the afterlife?
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Haut et Court
- Co-productions : France 3 Cinéma, Gimages
- Film exports/foreign sales : Playtime
- French distribution : Haut et Court
Full credits (16)
- Executive producers : Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta
- Assistant Director : Christophe Jeauffroy
- Sound Recordist : Olivier Mauvezin
- Screenwriters : Robin Campillo, Jean-André Yerles
- Director of photography : Jeanne Lapoirie
- Camera Operator : Richard Mercier
- Production Manager : Christian Paumier
- Press Attaché (film) : André-Paul Ricci
- Editors : Robin Campillo, Stéphanie Léger
- Sound editor : Valérie Deloof
- Continuity supervisor : Brigitte Tijou
- Production Designer : Mathieu Menut
- Music Composer : Martin Wheeler
- Casting : Brigitte Moidon
- Costume designer : Agnès Falque
- Sound Mixer : Fabrice Conesa Alcolea
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Fantasy
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2004
- French release : 27/10/2004
- Runtime : 1 h 50 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 103113
- Visa issue date : 14/10/2004
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : Under 12
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About
They Came Back by Robin Campillo (Les Revenants, France, 2004, 102 min.). The dead have returned…and are undergoing an existential crisis. Robin Campillo’s hugely original drama takes a timeless horror-movie trope, empties it of the expected chills, and uses it as a vehicle for another kind of unease entirely, one rooted in the everyday and in real human emotion. The film begins with an image that could be straight from any George Romero movie, as armies of the reanimated walk out of a graveyard in broad daylight. Everyone who’s died in the last 10 years has mysteriously returned to life, and in one French town, 13,000 people are back on the scene. An audacious genre reworking, They Came Back is philosophically rich and intensely, though subtly, moving. It’s a striking first feature by the co-writer and editor of Laurent Cantet’s films, including Heading South. Description adapted from the London Film Festival.
