Films on the other hand, can be thought-provoking, tedious, long, difficult…
Even worse, they can beFrench.
Need shorthand for pulp-y, Grand Guignol violence?
Except, theyre never subtext-free are they, stories about the undead?
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That word blank could explain the anti-intellectual response.
If zombies can mean anything, then perhaps they mean nothing, or at least, nothing specific.
Co-writer Emmanuel Carrere says the aim ofThe Returnedwas to deal with an unrealistic situation in a realistic way.
The fact were gettingThe Returnedover here owes no small debt to the critical success ofThe KillingandBorgen.
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