Haiti, 1962. 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 …See full summary »
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Writer:
Bertrand Bonello (screenplay)
Accomplished film shot and set in Haiti based on local voodoo practices and folklore. It is the 1960s Haiti as well as a boarding school in France where a schoolgirl, Fanny (Louise Labeque) dabbles in voodoo to settle her problems.
The film begins with what is supposedly based on the real-life story of a Haitian who suddenly collapses on the street and turns into zombie when buried. He is dug up and forced to work in a sugar cane plantation. There is a preachy and lengthy segment at the start…
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