"My Zombi is Not Like Other Zombis... It is Someone Between Life and Death": Bertrand Bonello Talks Haiti, Day for Night, and his New Zombi Child

A clear standout in Director's Fortnight at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Bertrand Bonello's mystifying, euphonious headfuck Zombi Child finally drifts onto North American screens this week at TIFF. Among other pleasures and singularities, Bonello's work has long employed a meticulously curated soundtrack to bridge internal gulfs in subject matter both historical and cultural. In his House of Tolerance, set in a brothel late in the Belle Époque, the (at the time, at least) scandalously anac...