I've just come from watching The Returned. The setting can seem rather weird, an allegedly Zombies film from the last year in La Cinemateque de Toulouse, a venue mainly dedicated to classic, cultured works. Moreover, it was a Spanish-Canadian film, shot in English (because of Denis Villeneuve I tend identify Canadian cinema with the French speaking Quebec), and with Spanish rather than French subtitles. Funny, isn't it?
The "arty" modern terror style shot that opens the film already gave me pretty good feelings. After that came what is (mainly) not a zombies film, but an intense action drama/thriller, where the infectious disease is just the base on which a gripping, emotional and desperate story develops, showing the best and the worst of the human condition. Unconditional love and treason fuck together to spawn pain and suffering, fear and hate removes from some human beings the last traces of civilization. This is also a story of survival, of how pressure sharpens our instincts for the best and for the worse.
uThe final part of the story is bitter and painful, and we see how the past comes to haunt you determining the future, old errors causing new horrors. OK, enough writing, I'm sleepy and I can not add much more other than strongly recommending you to give it a watch.
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