Zombi Child

Product Description **NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC'S PICK** **CERTIFIED FRESH** The latest from French master Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent, Nocturama) - Zombi Child is an 'audacious and cunning' (Little White Lies) new take on classic horror tropes that 'poses timely and provocative questions...a zombi drama that's not undead but bracingly alive' (Screen Daily). Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at a prestigious all-girls boarding school, Melissa, a young Haitian teenager, confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable. Bonus features include Director's Commentary by Bertrand Bonello and short film, Child of the Sky. Review Nominated - Queer Palm - Cannes Film Festival Official Selection - Toronto Int'l. Film Festival Official Selection - New York Film Festival Official Selection - Jerusalem Film Festival Official Selection - BFI London Film Festival --- Mixing political commentary, ethnography, teenage melodrama and genre horror, the film is an unashamedly cerebral study of multiple themes colonialism, revolution, liberalism, racial difference and female desire - with its unconventional narrative structure taking us a journey that s as intellectually demanding as it is compelling. Bonello takes Haitian history and culture absolutely seriously, and in juxtaposing them with the most exclusively white French experience imaginable..., Zombi Child poses timely and provocative questions. Crisp lensing by Yves Cape, Katia Wyszkop's design, and music by artists including rapper Damso, plus Bonello himself, combine to make a richly conceived piece. Strong performances from the young cast, including charismatic newcomer Louimat, make this a zombi drama that s not undead but bracingly alive. - Screen Daily Instead of overlaying modern-day signifiers on a period piece setting, as he did in House of Pleasures, Zombi Child suggests two temporalities that exist parallel to each other. And the anxiety this creates through discursive editing and match cuts leads to a feverish payoff, one that uses genre and supernatural elements to further Bonello's idea of there being one historical continuity. - Slant Magazine Folding history onto itself more explicitly than any of Bonello's previous films, Zombi Child peels back centuries of racist stereotypes to rescue Voodoo from the stuff of black magic and portray it instead as a kind of communion a communion between spirits, a communion between generations, and a communion between the dislocated joints of an empire. [E]ven the most terrifying scenes are rooted in something real. --IndieWire ...scintillating...Zombi Child is fueled by insinuation and fascination. - The New York Times Bonello's exquisite use of craft, including poetic day-for-night photography by Yves Cape (Holy Motors) and a strong electro-rock score, is definitely a plus, creating an ambiance that bewitchingly accompanies the action. - The Hollywood Reporter Bertrand Bonello's bifurcated drama explores the allure of the exotic, and how strongly we may wish that the most far-fetched and fantastical of stories might be true after all. With exceptional cinematography by Yves Cape, the zombie flashbacks are dramatized in an almost documentary fashion, which frankly makes them more horrifying. --CBS News
ASIN: B0875XG2B4
VSKU: DBV.B0875XG2B4.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Bertrand Bonello|Louise Labeque|Katiana Milfort|Wislanda Louimat
Binding: Dvd
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