Sarah Barnett - The Returned (Les Revenants) - 2013 Peabody Award Acceptance Speech
Channel: Peabody Awards
Date: 2014-12-12

Winner 2013 | Haut et Court TV, Canal +, Jimmy, Cine +, Backup Films

The Returned is exquisitely photographed and sensitively acted drama, but what really makes this French miniseries so indelible is that its creators take a supernatural premise and explore it with keen, objective intelligence and in meticulous detail. What would; happen if one day the casualties of a horrible bus accident began to reappear, un-aged, to the families and friends who are still mourning them, still arguing over how to memorialize them? What would it be like to be one of the resurrected, discovering that your girlfriend has moved on or your younger sibling is now older than you are? Why is this happening? How? The result of this painstaking act of imagination is a subtly spooky psychological thriller that ponders loss, grief, memory and guilt, to say nothing of our notions of the afterlife. The idyllic setting, a picturesque mountain town, only accentuates the eeriness. For its intricate storytelling, its visual elegance and its rumination on life, death and what might lie between, The Returned receives a Peabody Award.

Link: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-returned-les-revenants-sundance-channel