Fantasmes et fantômes(2017)
Three dreams, three stories that explore the charms and dangers of the imagination... In a small café, around 1900, a provincial theater enthusiast recounts his supposed successes to anyone who will listen. In an isolated house in the countryside, two women watch night fall and gradually succumb to terror. In the heart of a psychiatric clinic (with reputedly modern methods), the madmen may not be who we think they are—and they end up turning appearances upside down. Based on plays by Georges Courteline and André de Lorde.
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Three dreams, three stories that explore the charms and dangers of the imagination... In a small café, around 1900, a provincial theater enthusiast recounts his supposed successes to anyone who will listen. In an isolated house in the countryside, two women watch night fall and gradually succumb to terror. In the heart of a psychiatric clinic (with reputedly modern methods), the madmen may not be who we think they are—and they end up turning appearances upside down. Based on plays by Georges Courteline and André de Lorde.
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