Quand les morts reviennent

Abstract

In his movie They came back (2004), Robin Campillo pictured that a breach has been opened between our world and the Kingdom of the dead. The ghosts return massively, forcing a whole society to squarely face. Humanitarian aid and recourse are mobilized, changing the living-dead into refugees, subjected to the rules of an expert’s government. Three bereaved families are faced to the return of their dear departed. Unlike safe and fatal measures taken by society, intimacy sides of the story reveals ancient signs of affective ties, long-established emotional bonds we have got with ghosts. It appears that relationships with dead peoples might be good for us ; but today it has been hard to do, because of the loss of symbolic content. These loss of links leaves us at the mercy of our wishes and fantasies.

Keywords

• Dear Departed
• Ghosts
• Living-Dead
• Mourning
• Bereavement
• Refugee