Evil Seaweed

A scientist in yellow overalls is taking samples of green algae on a beach in Brittany. Lifting his mask, he suddenly drops down dead. There's panic in the village - he's not the first person to disappear, and the municipality suspects that toxic algae are the cause. Nevertheless, it's out of the question to endanger the tourism industry or accuse intensive farming for this maleficent bloom. The mayor prefers to suspect the Parisian "bobos" who rent the Airbnb on the beach. But all it takes is one high tide for the dead to re-emerge from the seaweed carpet as zombies. From then on, of course, everything goes downhill. A hedonistic parody of Romero's gory, political zombie movies, EVIL SEAWEED takes satire and schoolboy adventure to the limit. No-one can escape the zombie violence, but neither can anything stand up to the non-conformist, anarchistic firepower of the author of LA FILLE DU 14 JULLET and YELLOW SATURDAY: neither local politics and its spinelessness, nor the ready-made ideas of Parisian thirty-somethings. Among them, Muppet stands out. The amateur laboratory technician discovers she has a superpower, a lethal weapon in her chest. Flashing zombies. A madcap idea from Antonin Peretjatko, the author and director of this jubilant Breton farce, who seems to have followed no other principle than his own pleasure. And ours -pure pleasure, provided we're willing to play the (killing) game. (Cyril Neyrat)