They Came Back
Directed by	Robin Campillo
Produced by	Caroline Benjo Carole Scotta
Written by	Robin Campillo Brigitte Tijou
Starring	Géraldine Pailhas Jonathan Zaccaï Frédéric Pierrot
Music by	Jocelyn Pook Martin Wheeler
Cinematography	Jeanne Lapoirie
Editing by	Robin Campillo
Release date(s)	2004
Running time	102 min.
Language	French

They Came Back (French: Les Revenants) is a French zombie film, originally released in 2004. The film was screened at the Hamburg Fantasy Filmfest in Hamburg, Germany, the Venice Film Festival in Italy, and the Toronto Film Festival in Canada.

Unlike modern zombie films, in which the undead characters wish to digest or otherwise harm the human characters, the 70 million people who return from the dead in They Came Back want simply to re-integrate themselves into society. In the French village where the film takes place, the town's population must cope with the social and emotional ramifications of the dead coming back to life. The dead are not unlike children, having to relearn how to talk and remember.^[1]

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Notes 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

As the movie begins, a slow moving mostly gray haired crowd walk through a French town. These people are clean, combed, and casually dressed. Integration with society becomes the first issue that concerns the town politicos. While the authorities monitor and record movements, habits, sociability, and intelligence the personal relationships between the returned and their respective live spouses and parents comes into the foreground. Painful memories are awakened,guilt, fear, love, even unearthed passions are aroused. However, monitoring the returnees shows them to be very much apart from their live cohabitants and in fact involved in late night clandestine meetings, seemingly plotting with more intelligence than they are exhibiting in their day jobs.

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[edit] See also

• Babylon Fields was a proposed television series featuring reanimated zombies, with similar themes

[edit] External links

• They Came Back at the Internet Movie Database
• They Came Back at Allmovie

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