Fantastique: The Dreams and Nightmares of French Cinema (Limited Edition) [Blu-ray] [UK] Nicolas Cage

Fantastique: The Dreams and Nightmares of French Cinema (Limited Edition) [Blu-ray] [UK] Nicolas CageThough 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 cinma 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

and cinematographer László Kovács

What begins as a tense confrontation soon spirals into a web of lust

Mireille Dargent (Lips of Blood)

After his return home

Video trailer

an extract from the film's pressbook

and connection boasts stunning black-and-white cinematography by Néstor Almendros (The Story of Adele H

Clouseau dons ridiculously complicated disguises and hectically enlists the aid of his loyally fight-prone employee Cato (Burt Kwouk) for field work

Young Jason seems to be the only one who doesn't love The Stuff - in fact

sex and madness

Buckle your seat belt and enjoy the ride

dissolve in a hallucinogenic haze