Zombi Child

[Subtitled] [Opens Feb. 28 at the MSP Film Society at the St. Anthony on Main Theater; for information, log on to info@mspfilm.org or call 612/331-7563.] After an orphaned black teenager (Wislanda Louimat) moves from Haiti to France in 2010 following a devastating earthquake and lives with her voodoo-practicing aunt (Katiana Milfort) in Bertrand Bonello's unusual, weird, well-acted, gloomy, languid-paced, unpredictable, 103-minute thriller highlighted by great cinematography, she ends up confiding in her sorority sisters at a French boarding school that her grandfather (Mackenson Bijou) became a mute zombie working on a sugar cane plantation in 1962 and when one distraught classmate (Louise Labèque) learns about the voodoo, she begs her friend's aunt to help her forget the unwanted breakup with her social-media-only boyfriend (Sayyid El Alami) with disastrous, creepy results.
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