Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film in 1992, Indochine is a vast, panoramic love story set in the twilight years of French Indo-China. Comparisons with David Lean are inevitable, considering director Régis Wargnier's use of the setting as a backdrop to the love-triangle between the three main characters. Catherine Deneuve gives a strong, emotionally restrained performance as Eliane, the plantation owner whose colonial paradise is slowly falling apart. Vincent Perez is magnetic yet thoughtful as the young officer Jean-Baptiste, complemented by Jean Yanne's dry cynicism as the Chief of Police knowingly fighting a losing battle for French culture. Linh Dan Pham is affecting as Camille, Eliane's adopted daughter whose journey from aristocratic ancestry to Marxist induction personifies the changing face of South-East Asia in the period around World War Two. Patrick Doyle's score reinforces the expressive sweep of the direction and "orientalisms!" are kept to a minimum. On the DVD The 16:9 wide-screen format reproduces best in the domestic scenes, and there are 30 individual chapter points, detailed in the interactive moving menu. The disc also has detailed filmographies for the main cast and director, including an entertaining "gossip" file for Deneuve. English subtitles are optional. A half-hour location report would have been worthwhile, but overall this is a persuasive presentation of one of the few genuine historical-romantic epics of the 1990s. --Richard Whitehouse
In this surrealist animation, Mariusz Wilczynski tells the story of a man who hides in a land of safe memories from his childhood in 1970s-era Poland, fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him. Product Features The winner of 10 Internationally recognised festival awards, including the Polish Film Awards First-Ever UK Blu-Ray Release Includes the Voice appearance of BAFTA and Oscar Honorary award winner Andrzej Wajda
A cinematic masterpiece that has become one of the most honoured films of all time (seven Academy Awards among them) the film presents the indelible true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler a member of the Nazi party womaniser and war profiteer who saved the lives of more then 1 100 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of what he did. Please note: the film is spread over two discs.
Three years work produced this magnificent wide screen spectacle with a cast of thousands. It is the story of Ramesse and his fight to survive at the head of the imperial armies in the crumbling Egyptain empire that was being eroded by vast expenditure in gold on foreign wars temples tombs and the Pharaoh's court...
Tracklisting: 1. Six Days Remix: DJ Shadow feat' Mos Def 2. Some Kind Of Kink: Red Snapper 3. Dusted: Leftfield & Roots Manuva 4. The Horror: RJD2 5. Grammy Winners: Funkstorung 6. Ahou Bouken: Bogan Raczynski 7. Clicks: Bleip 8. Slien Radio: Slam 9. Me & Madonna: Black Strobe 10. 100$ Captain: Comatose 11. Stop Da Shot Bloca: Phon. O 12. The Man With The Red Face: Laurent Garnier 13. Happiness: Superpitcher 14. Rocket Ride: Felix Da Housecat 15. Kick Out The Chairs: Munk feat' James Murphy 16. We Belong In This World Together: Stereo MC's
Polish filmmaker Jacek Borcuch directs this autobiographical coming-of-age drama about four schoolboys who form a punk band. Set over the course of one year, against the backdrop of the political uprisings in Poland in 1981, the film follows Janek (Mateusz Kosciukiewicz), his brother, Staszek (Mateusz Banasiuk), and their friends, Kazik (Jakub Gierszal) and Diabel (Igor Obloza), as they write and play their music, experience the joys and heartbreaks of first love and struggle to come to terms with their emergent and often conflicting ideals in a dangerously volatile political climate.
Agnieszka Holland's 'Europa Europa' is the fascinating fact-based story of Solomon Perel (Marco Hofschneider) a German Jew who survived the Holocaust by concealing his identity literally within enemy ranks. When Nazi thugs smash into the Perels' house 13-year-old Solly manages to flee. Upon his reunion with his family they head for Poland hoping to find safety but war soon overcomes that land and once again Solly is forced to run this time with his brother. They become separate
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