A Charming Documentary About ‘Garfield’ Phones Washing Up on the Coast of France for 40 Years

Director Zack Grant explored the bizarre phenomenon of Garfield phones washing up on the shores of Brittany on France‘s northwest coast and charmingly documented how local residents have responded to the steady arrival of plastic orange cats over four decades.

For decades, bright orange Garfield phones have washed ashore along the coast of northwest France, baffling the local community and inspiring an American pop culture icon’s unlikely second act.

These phones began washing up after a shipping container carrying them was lost at sea in the 1980s.

In the early 1980s, a lost shipping container stranded thousands of Garfield telephones in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of France