Underplayed Gems

Fantastica (1980)

Fantastica poster
Directed by
Gilles Carle
Genre
musical film
Country
France, Canada
Runtime
1h 50m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A musical film about performers putting on a show. It follows the characters as they sing and dance in a theatrical setting.

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What happens

Fantastica is a 1980 French-Canadian musical film written and directed by Gilles Carle. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. An English-language dialogue dubbed version of the film was broadcast on Superchannel, a pay-TV channel in western Canada in the early 1980s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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