Bertrand Bonello on ‘Zombi Child,’ the Positivity of Voodoo, Real-Life Zombies, and Contemporary Cultural Tensions
We sat down with Bonello at the 57th New York Film Festival to discuss meeting real-life zombies, the great lengths he went to respect the Haitian tradition of voodoo while telling a taboo story, using Clairvius Narcisse’s zombification to contextualize contemporary cultural tensions, and recruiting historian Patrick Boucheron to explain how liberalism obscures liberty....
