{"product_id":"fantastique-the-dreams-and-nightmares-of-french-cinema-blu-ray-boxset","title":"Fantastique: The Dreams and Nightmares of French Cinema Blu-ray Boxset","description":"\u003cp\u003e'\u003cstrong\u003eFantastique: The Dreams and Nightmares of French Cinema'\u003c\/strong\u003e (1930-1996) Radiance \u003cem\u003eLimited Edition\u003c\/em\u003e 6-Disc Blu-ray Boxset | 6 films | \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(12, 25, 161);\"\u003eRegion A+B\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e | \u003cem\u003eFrench w\/ English subtitles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough rarely thought of as a home for genre filmmaking, France has fostered a long lineage of films treading the line between realism and fantasy. Broadly gathered under the term cinéma fantastique, 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 appear to hold. Formally striking and thematically stimulating, these phantasmagorical films blur the boundary between horror and wonder as they weave beguiling tales around the mysterious and the unexplained. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDans la Nuit (Charles Vanel, 1930) 4K restoration\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eShortly after his wedding, a quarry worker is disfigured in a mining accident. The mask now covering his face is scarier than the scars underneath it… and his bride is soon tempted by the promise of happier days with another man.\u003cbr\u003eThe sole feature film directed by legendary French actor Charles Vanel (\u003cem\u003eThe Wages of Fear\u003c\/em\u003e) is a viscerally affecting story of love and happiness, terror and guilt, with stunning cinematography and breathtakingly creative editing capturing the surreal atmosphere of life in the mines as well as the dizzying joy of romance. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLa Nuit fantastique (Marcel L'Herbier, 1942) 4K restoration\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eA philosophy student makes ends meet by working nights at a fresh food market. Perpetually exhausted, he often falls asleep and dreams of a beautiful woman dressed in white. One night, he follows her on a peculiar adventure across Paris…\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most successful French films made during the German occupation of France, Marcel L’Herbier’s lighthearted comedy uses ethereal set design, witty dialogue, and a charismatic cast to gracefully skip from one charmingly implausible moment to the next. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLe Diable souffle (Edmond T. Gréville, 1947) 4K restoration\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eOne rainy night in the city, a man meets a sickly and despairing young woman. He brings her back to his small island near the Spanish border, where the Tramontana wind always blows. One stormy night a mysterious drifter finds refuge on the island, disturbing the pair's harmonious routine.\u003cbr\u003eEmotions are high and imaginations run wild in this moody story of unrequited love, broken dreams, and frustrated desires. The atmospheric cinematography by Henri Alekan (\u003cem\u003eBeauty and the Beast\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWings of Desire\u003c\/em\u003e) captures all the hallucinogenic power of the film’s unusual setting, an isolated place battered by winds and rain when it isn’t bathed in idyllic sunshine. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Golem (Jean Kerchbron, 1967) 4K restoration\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAfter he mistakenly swaps his hat with a stranger, an unnamed man appears to start living the stranger’s life in his dreams. Now a jewel cutter and book restorer in the Prague ghetto, he finds himself embroiled in his neighbors' sordid stories of passion, jealousy, and revenge, while rumors spread that an ominous clay figure known as the Golem has reappeared after 33 years.\u003cbr\u003eJean Kerchbron’s TV adaptation of Gustav Meyrink’s novel, itself inspired by the Jewish folktale of the Golem, seems like an emanation from another time and place. Mystical dialogue, arresting set design, and a panoply of striking faces combine in a hypnotic, metaphysical tale that appears to abide by old rules and ancient wisdom. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Woman with Red Boots (Juan Luis \u003cspan\u003eBuñuel\u003c\/span\u003e, 1974) 4K restoration\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAfter Françoise, a successful novelist, meets a rich art patron, he begins to stalk her. Soon, he invites her to write her memoir at his country house. But he also invites the director of an art magazine whom Françoise has become obsessed with.\u003cbr\u003eJuan Luis Buñuel takes after his father in this unpredictable allegory on art’s power to control us and warp our perceptions. The multi-layered game of cat and mouse makes canny use of Catherine Deneuve’s on-screen persona as both an unreachable ideal and a sensual, flesh-and-blood woman: Françoise is an artist who, through her creative imagination and the grip she has on men’s psyche, can make them see things that may or may not be there. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree Lives and Only One Death (Raúl Ruiz, 1996) 2K restoration\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eIn the first of four intertwining tales, Marcello Mastroianni (\u003cem\u003e8 ½\u003c\/em\u003e) plays an affable man who tells a stranger about the time fairies devoured years of his life. In the second, he is a Professor who abandons his job to become a beggar. 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