Zombi Child

Name: Zombi Child
Genre: Fantasy
Released: January 24, 2020
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Adilé David, Ginite Popote, Katiana Milfort, Louise Labeque, Mackenson Bijou

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Film Movement | Release Date: January 24, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Adilé David, Ginite Popote, Katiana Milfort, Louise Labeque, Mackenson Bijou, Mathilde Riu, Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey, Ninon François, Patrick Boucheron, Saadia Bentaïeb, Sayyid El Alami, Wislanda Louimat

Summary: 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 the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends – never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate toHaiti, 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 the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl 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.… Expand

Director: Bertrand Bonello

Genre(s): Fantasy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 103 min

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Glenn Kenny

Jan 23, 2020

The movie’s inconclusiveness is the source of its appeal; Zombi Child is fueled by insinuation and fascination. Read full review

Sam C. Mac

May 17, 2019

Bertrand Bonello’s quixotic, slow-burn genre film is political largely in the abstract. Read full review

The Playlist Joe Blessing

Jan 21, 2020

Zombi Child is the rare film that’s both rich in ideas and fun, a reckoning with forces colonial powers would like buried, but that won’t stay dead. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

May 24, 2019

If Zombi Child gets snared in a web of symbols and ideas that it never fully manages to weaponize in its favor...it still provides a bold and compelling bridge between the living and the dead. Read full review

K. Austin Collins

Jan 27, 2020

I don’t find Bonello cold. I find him alert, alive, and frequently inspired—if unexpectedly limited, at times. Zombi Child amounts to a curiously fragmented display of his talent. But much of the good stuff is here. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 22, 2020

It’s an utterly immersive Franco-Haitian gumbo, complete with flashbacks, “magic” as practiced by those who know “the old ways,” teen hormones and the zombi origin story. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

May 24, 2019

The result feels like two incomplete movies in one, neither of them fully satisfying in the end. Still, there are some graceful moments scattered throughout, especially in the Haitian sequences, while it’s also rather refreshing to see a brand new take on a subject that’s been worked to death elsewhere. Read full review

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