Zombi Child

French director Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent, Nocturama) infuses this haunting drama with the spooky supernatural atmosphere of an old Jacques Tourneur film (I Walked With a Zombie, Cat People). In 1962 Haiti a man is brought back from the dead, only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. Some 55 years later, at an exclusive girl's school in Paris, a young Haitian teenager confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends. Mixing political commentary, ethnography, coming-of-age melodrama and good old-fashioned horror movies, Bonello creates a Gothic gumbo of genres. In English, Creole and French with English subtitles. 103 minutes Unrated. (Opens Friday 3/13)