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/fæntæsˈtɪk/ · noun
(film, literature) A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story..
And certainly the film's free-floating fantasy and the blatant transparency of its narrative--its capacity to be seen for the artifice that it is--are a lot closer to fantastique than they are to the more logically circumscribed forms of fancy celebrated in this country.
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Fantastique means (film, literature) A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story..
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And certainly the film's free-floating fantasy and the blatant transparency of its narrative--its capacity to be seen for the artifice that it is--are a lot closer to fantastique than they are to the more logically circumscribed forms of fancy celebrated in this country.
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