
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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 for them.
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| Film ScoutsJason GorberLeave it to the French to take all the fun out of a Zombie flick, overly intellectualizing even the most base of cinema forms. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin CliffordIt's an original in a genre done to death (pun intended). |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher Nulla kind of aborted film that's mostly about how paranoid people are, and not the mind-f*** that it really ought to have been |
| VarietyJay WeissbergIt’s rather amazing how far the film is able to coast on its uniquely fascinating premise, even if it isn’t much of a stretch for its director: Campillo co-authored Laurent Cantet’s incredible Time Out, a different kind of zombie film about the deadening effects of too much work on the human psyche, and They Came Back is almost as impressive in its concern with the existential relationship between the physical and non-physical world. |
| The ListHenry NorthmoreA contemplative off-beat drama taking a very original look at how society copes with death. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura Clifford...this film's engagingly original premise allows for some probing social exploration but ultimately fails to draw any real conclusions. |
| Film4Anton BitelOccupying a crepuscular space between life and death, wakefulness and sleep, arthouse and genre, Campillo's astonishing debut is as unnervingly oneiric as it is oddly moving. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsMark R. LeeperA creative and intelligent recycling of the dead returning for non-horror purposes, but it runs into pacing problems toward the middle. |
| User ReviewBen CNot like any zombie movie you have ever seen...but even more chilling. This movie portrays one city on the day when millions of people returned from the dead. They arent bloodthirsy, they aren't gross, and they arent stupid. They just...come back...slightly more sluggish. The main idea behind this movie is the confusion, grieving, and change now that millions of lost loved ones...have now come back looking for the life they previously had. Oh yeah...and it's all in French |
| User ReviewPepper RLoved the movie! Very emotional for me. Very realistic to view this phenomenon from an economic and social standpoint. |