FRANCE’S Philippe Garrel is one of the last filmmakers you’d expect to make a ghost story, but his “The Frontier of Dawn” (2008) is ex actly that.

Just don’t go expecting something like Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Pulse” (2001)or any number of other Asian chillers.

Garrel’s feature isn’t meant as a horror flick but as a tempestuous tale of l’amour fou in which one of the lovers returns as a spirit.

Garrel’s hunky son, Louis, stars as a Parisian photographer (he still uses film) who becomes involved in an affair with a married actress whose husband is in Hollywood working on a movie.

She’s played by Laura Smet, whose parents are two of France’s biggest stars, actress Nathalie Baye and singer Johnny Hallyday.

Smet is a fine actress in her own right, given to pouting the way only French women can.

The luscious underexposed black-and-white lensing by William Lubtchansky recalls the heyday of the French New Wave.

“The Frontier of Dawn” – a hit at Cannes, by the way – screened last Sunday at Lincoln Center’s Film Comment Selects festival.

Even though the showing was in direct competition with the Oscars, the theater was nearly full, proving that not everybody is taken in by the media hype surrounding the awards.

On Friday the film begins a run at BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn (bam.org). A Q&A session with Louis Garrel is scheduled for next Sunday’s 4:30 p.m. screening.

* Ready or not, here it comes. Underground auteur Jon Moritsugu’s punk opus “Terminal USA” (1993) has arrived on DVD.

Hawaii-born Moritsugu and his wife and muse, Amy Davis, star as Kazumi and Eightball, respectively.

The press release describes “Terminal USA” better than I ever could, so here goes:

“We’re talking bloodied cheerleaders, pastel beehives and punk speed dealers. We’re talking subversion, sex tapes and latex-bikinied alien chicks. And don’t forget Nazi skinheads, evil twins and, of course, burning crosses, baby.”

Moritsugu has been making movies since 1985. They include “Fame Whore” (1997), “Scumrock” (2002), “Hippy Porn” (1991) and the ever popular “Mommy Mommy Where’s My Brain” (1986).

V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post; vam@nypost.com