{"product_id":"fantastique-the-dreams-and-nightmares-of-french-cinema-limited-edition","title":"Fantastique: The Dreams and Nightmares of French Cinema (Limited Edition)","description":"\u003ch3 itemprop=\"description\"\u003eSix dreams and nightmares of French cinema by Charles Vanel, Marcel L'Herbier, Edmond T. Greville, Jean Kerchbron, Juan Luis Bunuel and Raul Ruiz\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough rarely thought of as a home for genre filmmaking, France has fostered a long lineage of films at the border between realism and fantasy. Broadly gathered under the term of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCinéma Fantastique\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, these works often find the magical and the surreal lurking in the ordinary. Uncanny dreams, fleeting visions, or eerie apparitions lift their protagonists out of the everyday, transporting viewers into atmospheric worlds where the usual rules structuring our reality do not always hold. Formally striking and thematically stimulating, these phantasmagorical films blur the boundary between horror and wonder as they place the mysterious and the unexplained centre-stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDans la Nuit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003cb\u003eCharles Vanel\u003c\/b\u003e, 1930) moves from joy to terror as a disfigured miner starts to wear a strange mask. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarcel L'Herbier\u003c\/b\u003e's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa Nuit Fantastique\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1942), a student follows a woman in his dreams. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdmond T. 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