The Film That Inspired The Returned TV Series Set For UK DVD Release
Were you one of the 1.5 million viewers who tuned into Channel 4’s French subtitled supernatural drama The Returned last night? Did you know the French series is in fact based on a 2004 cult hit feature film called Les Revenants? Arrow Films are releasing Robin Campillo‘s original feature film on UK DVD from July now with the same title as the TV Series, The Returned.
The recently dead return to life and seem content merely to go back to their former lives, but their return causes a myriad of complications. Isham and Véronique have their trepidations,but they’re generally happy, at first, to see their little boy Sylvain,and the town’s elderly mayor welcomes home his wife, Martha . But Rachel, a government health official, cannot bring herself to visit her newly returned husband, Mathieu, at the ad-hoc shelter where the government houses the “zombies” like refugees. Eventually, she relents, and Mathieu returns home, but the living find that their loved ones are not exactly as they remember them. Studies soon reveal that the dead suffer from a form of aphasia.
They cannot create new memories, and they cannot be trusted to perform any but the most menial tasks. Perhaps sensing the discomfort they cause the living, the dead gather together at night, and seem to be formulating some kind of secret plan.
So if you where hooked on last night’s new series like I was, you can buy the film that started it all off The Returned (Les Revenants), when it’s released on DVD Monday 22nd July 2013.
Pre-order/ Buy: The Returned (Les Revenants): The Returned On DVD
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