Zombi Child (2019)

Zombi Child: Directed by Bertrand Bonello. With Louise Labeque, Wislanda Louimat, Katiana Milfort, Mackenson Bijou. A man is brought back from the dead to work in the hell of sugar cane plantations. 55 years later, a Haitian teenager tells her friends her family secret – not suspecting that it will push one of them to commit the irreparable.

“In Haiti of 1962 a man is forced into slave labour. Modern days, a girl in an exclusive boarding school is trying to fit in. When she reveals the truth about her family origins a chain of events leads to a terrifying encounter that bring the past and the present together in a disturbing and dangerous way.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eZOMBI CHILD is a strange beast of static camera work and incomprehensible storytelling. But the most surprising thing about it is that the film works. By defying all the plot standards of modern film making it becomes unpredictable.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSwitching between time frames, a disorderly Haiti of the past century and an orderly life of upper class French teenagers, it is hard to tell where the movie is going. And what is it trying to tell? Who are the real zombies? The ones under a voodoo curse who escape within an inch of their life, or the french youths confined in a jail-like school, forced to follow the traditions they donu0026#39;t believe in? Is it about the irrelevance of the past, no matter how important and treasured it seems? My guess is as good as yours.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBottom line – ZOMBIE CHILD is a mess. It also makes it unique. And not a reason to skip it if you love French cinema!”