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Although it has been a failure in movie theaters because mainly Mylene Farmer, one of the 3 top stars in France had not the first role. Fans had changed their mind after that and were waiting for it on DVD. When it has been released on DVD this year it has have a tremendous success ! The others fails was the slow pace and the incredible length (3h) at that time (1994) that have annoyed critics. But the melancholic story makes mandatory that slow pace and long time. The moral of the film is you cannot escape from the death you are destined for. It is the same theme than in the movie "Final Destination" and makes it a Gothic tale. The atmosphere is very melancholic.

According to the book I read recently, only the last story is really representative of HP Lovecraft work. Let's compare with the selection in that book, a french edition called "The Colour out of Space". Briefly, in this edition you find a progressive assimilation of each protagonist in the alien world while reading each different story. "The drowned" is all right but not like the awesome "Dunwich Horror" and "The Shadow over Innsmouth". "Cold air" is a good story but with no trace from the Lovecraft's aliens just a kind of Frankenstein. Furthermore, that last story is unrecognizable from the original: the characters are not of the same type with a totally different role (if this could be called a role). The aim of the aliens is not clear. The means to achieve their aim is not logic or clear. All is a pretext to gore and only that ! Finally, I think this film lost it's goal: you cannot make a good film on Lovecraft work with only 3 stories which have no progression or logic between them.

The subject of this film is the dream. You'll see a man in a fantastic place where men and women must find their own dream using a fixed bus where a false landscape painted on 2 revolving vertical rollers in front of the windshield ravels. This fantastic place is very white and with no hill where each person has its small space where it carries out its dream. You'll see even a man in a sand vat playing with the model of a ship of corsair. The hero seeks in vain but does not find until he meets a woman in the same case as him, in this bus. They find their dream together while falling in love because their dream was a dream of love. There is even a scene where they are seen intertwined, layed, cherishing themselves in white sheets... I also remember that this dream is disapproved because it enfraint a rule governing this place of the dream. Here, it is all which I remember.