Ghosts

the Ghosts is a French film carried out by Robin Campillo, left to France on October 27th 2004.

Synopsis

One day, deaths since less than ten years leave the cemeteries. They return, intact, by million, among the alive ones, everywhere in the world. In the French city where the film is held, they are several thousands: child, husband, woman of the mayor…

Logistics of the reception of these newcomers, difficulties of their professional and family reintegration, disorders in front of the strangeness of these " people revenues" , according to the official term: far from any gore treatment, the antipodes of an death-alive film of zombis or traditional, the film exploits a climate of diffuse concern.

A priori similar to alive the " ordinaires" , the ghosts are characterized some by differences which appear gradually: their body temperature is lower from 4 to 5 degrees, allowing the public authorities to supervise them by thermal cameras air, and they are slower.

Data sheet

  • Title: the Ghosts
  • Realization: Robin Campillo
  • Scenario: Robin Campillo and Brigitte Tijou
  • Production: High and short
  • Country of origin: France
  • Format: Colors
  • Kind: Fantastic
  • Lasted: 102 minutes
  • Coming out date: 2004
  • Film prohibited with less than 12 years at the time of its exit in France

Distribution

Distinctions

Selected for the 61e Mostra of Venice.

Around film

Interviewed on this film, its first like realizer, Robin Campillo indicate that its references “go from traditional from Romero to the Invasion of the profaners of burials of Don Siegel, or even, for the light shift of film of anticipation, Fahrenheit 451 of Truffaut, and also Muriel of Resnais for its anxious environment of French provincial town during the war of Algeria. ”

External bond

  • the Ghosts on IMDb

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