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• Attenberg | DVD | (09/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Athina Rachel Tsangari writes and directs this offbeat Greek coming-of-age drama. Ariane Labed stars as Marina, an inexperienced and idiosyncratic 20-something struggling to come to terms with her ambiguous sexual awakening via a series of wildlife documentary-inspired experimentations with her flirtatious best friend Bella (Evangelia Randou) and a sweetly awkward engineer (Giorgos Lanthimos). Meanwhile, Marina nurses and converses with her dying father, cynical anti-modernist architect Spyros (Vangelis Mourikis).

• The Hedgehog Reg 2 DVD | DVD | (13/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on a best-selling novel, first-time writer/director Mona Achach's charming and thoughtful The Hedgehog is the story of an unexpected encounter. Paloma, an exceptionally intelligent 11 year old (played by Garance Le Guillermic) wants to end it all on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her within a Parisian apartment building. But as her birthday approaches, Paloma finally meets some kindred spirits in her solitary concierge Renee Michel (Josiane Balasko) and an enigmatic and elegant neighbour Mr Kakuro Ozu (Togo Igawa).Freely inspired by Moroccan-born Muriel Barbery's international literary success, The Hedgehog leaves a deep impression. No car chases, no expolsions, no convoluted plot twists - yet its utterly captivating simply because the characters are so well drawn and full of humanity.

• Year of the Dragon | DVD | (17/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Using unprecedented degrees of violence young Joey Tai becomes the head of Chinese mafia in New York and undisputed leader of Chinese community. Stanley White the most decorated cop in New York who hates Asian people since his service in Vietnam is put in charge of Chinatown. Both men are prone to breaking long-established rules and both men are unlikely to make compromises with each other which leads to unavoidable and bloody conflict.

• Fidelio, Alice's Journey | DVD | (08/02/2016) from £8.45   |  Saving you £7.54 (89.23%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Alice is a 30 year-old sailor, in love with Félix who waits for her ashore as she unexpectedly sets off as second mechanic on the Fidelio, an old freighter. On board, she discovers not only that she replaces a recently deceased mechanic, but also that the Captain is none other than her first great love, Gaël. In her cabin Alice comes across the diary of the former mechanic, and by reading its content accounts of technical problems, sexual conquests and lovelorn emotions she finds, oddly, that they echo her own journey. As the ship calls at various ports, Alice deals with life aboard with an all-male crew, the notion of desire in such an environment and the swings of her romantic feelings, while trying to stay the course.

• La Ville Est Tranquille | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £13.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Michele (Ariane Ascaride) works nights in a fish market to finance her daughter's heroin addiction. When that's not enough she sells her body to Paul (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) a striking docker who has turned his back on the cause to become a cabbie. Her supplier is Gerard (Gerard Meylan) a bar owner with a lucrative sideline in contract killing. His latest target is Claude (Pierre Banderet) a wealthy snob whose wife is so disgusted by him she takes up with an ex-convict. Frenc

• Death And The Compass | DVD | (15/02/2005) from £14.91   |  Saving you £-5.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An adaptation of the José Luis Borges short story, Death and the Compass is a baroque murder mystery with a comic touch. Plagued by his involvement in a prior investigation, weary and embittered Police Commissioner Treviranus (played by Cox regular Miguel Sandoval, Straight to Hell, Three Businessmen) attempts to set a peculiar history straight. When his star detective Lonnrot (Peter Boyle), an intuitive, blue-suited Buddhist, is stumped as to the motive behind a series of unsolved psycho-geographical murders with Kabbalistic overtones, Treviranus suspects master criminal Scharlach (Christopher Eccleston), at large in the city. But Lonnrot rejects this thesis and, with the aide of enthusiastic, atheist journalist, Zunz (Chistopher Eccleston), he is lead to believe that the crimes are allied to points on the compass. Drawn fatefully to where he believes a final crime will be committed, Lonnrot and Zunz search for the solution within a mysterious deserted mansion to the South of the city. Shot with a comic book sensibility (like a 1930s movie serial) on richly coloured modernist sets with futurist flourishes, Cox's film looks sumptuous and follows the style of Borges' labryinthine scenario to the letter without losing the plot. The three leads all acquit themselves admirably. Boyle's mystical detective is awkward and aloof in contrast to Sandoval's cunning, career-minded police inspector, while Ecceleston shape-shifts between three roles with alarming ease. On the DVD: An audio commentary by Alex Cox and composer Dan Wool of Pray for Rain (who also scored Cox's Straight to Hell and Three Businessmen) primarily examines the relationship between sound and setting. Paul Miller's "Spiderweb", the featurette advertised on the sleeve and liner notes, does not appear on this disc. --Chris Campion

• A Common Thread | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seventeen-year-old Claire Moutiers (Lola Naymark) has managed quite well since moving off her parents' farm and into a quaint studio in Angouleme. Her supermarket cashier's job pays the bills but more importantly it promises Claire enough spare time to design the intricately beautiful embroideries that are her passion. Claire's parents see little of their daughter but they know she's OK. The ""mysteriously vanishing"" heads of cabbage that Claire regularly swipes from the family farm

• Anatomie 2 | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jo (Metshurat) a young doctor filled with optimism and ambition begins his internship at a Berlin hospital determined to become a member of the team headed by the renowned Professor Mller-LaRousse (Knaup) who is in charge of a spectacular research project. Jo dreams of helping his younger brother who suffers from muscular dystrophy and for whom medicine has had little to offer so far; together with a group of ambitious young doctors Jo throws himself into his work - the development of artificial muscle strands. To circumvent tiresome monitoring by medical control boards the project is propelled forward with dangerous experiments involving the researchers themselves as subjects. Jo realizes what he has gotten himself into but at that point it's too late. Mller-LaRousse is a fanatical member of the secret society of the Antihippocrats and the increasingly threatening project has already claimed more than one victim. Could Jo be the next one?

• Hans Werner Henzes The Bassarids(Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (11/10/2019) from £45.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Art of Seduction | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The Art Of Seduction' is a feature length trilogy of dramas based on the short works of well-known American authors. It brings together some of Hollywood's top talent. Businessman Martin Meadows (Ray Liotta) returns to his suburban home and confronts his wife Emily (Andie MacDowell) whose drinking is beginning to threaten their children's safety. A Domestic Dilemma based on the story by Carson McCullers is a hard-edged portrayal of one couple's struggle with alcoholism. Directed by Kisti Zea. In the second tale up and coming boxer Eddie Megeffin (Matt Dillon) is pressured by his beautiful young wife Arlene (Kyra Sedgwick) to accept a big payday bout with a championship contender. Although he's not ready Eddie is eager to please Arlene - who has been all but forgotten due to his rigorous training schedule. Will Eddie's sacrifices pay off? Or will Arlene simply return to Kansas City. Directed by Walter Bernstein. The third story sees the writer Henry (Scott Glenn) befriend Mara (Juliette Binoche) a prostitute. Struck by her mysterious charm and beauty he invites her to dinner and the two are passionately drawn together. Henry offers the kindness Mara has never known but is it too threatening to her pained existence? Mara written by Henry Miller is the touching tale of two lovers whose entire relationship is limited to a single night. Directed by Mike Figgis.

• Change of Address | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £11.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (33.40%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Writer-director Emmanuel Mouret stars as David a French horn teacher looking for a room to rent. After meeting ditzy blonde Anne (Frederique Bel) he's soon sharing both her apartment and her bed despite her professed attraction to someone else. Evidently David's not much of a one for boundaries because apart from fancying his flatmate he also falls in love with Julia (Audrey Tautou-alike Fanny Valette) one of his music students. After a shaky start things seem to be going well with Julia... until they meet smooth-talking restaurateur Julien (Dany Brilliant) when he stops a bag-snatcher from stealing her bag. This is a beautifully written achingly funny fi lm that will strike a chord with anyone who's ever had their dream girl (or boy) stolen from right under their nose. There are some lovely scenes particularly the montage of Anne and David playing Monopoly having sex and just hanging out.

• Zimmermann: Die Soldaten (Salzburg 2012) | Blu Ray | (01/07/2013) from £11.60   |  Saving you £19.65 (190.04%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• Au Soleil Meme La Nuit - Theatre du Soleil | DVD | (06/02/2012) from £17.11   |  Saving you £10.88 (63.59%)   |  RRP £27.99

  This is a film about the rehearsing of Moli�re's 'Tartuffe' in 1995. Working handheld or with a stand for up to 12 hours a day, cameraman Eric Darmon became so much part of the landscape that he had a totally free hand in documenting the play's gestation, complete with director Ariane Mnouchkine's instructions, urgings and moments of uncertainty. Every action, decision, and all the tensions, elation, gaffes and bouts of craziness were filmed as they happened. And then along came editor Cather...

• The Art Of Seduction | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Art Of Seduction is a feature length trilogy of dramas based on the short works of well-known American authors. It brings together some of Hollywood's top talent. Businessman Martin Meadows (Ray Liotta) returns to his suburban home and confronts his wife Emily (Andie MacDowell) whose drinking is beginning to threaten their children's safety. A Domestic Dilemma based on the story by Carson McCullers is a hard-edged portrayal of one couple's struggle with alcoholism. Directed by Kisti Zea. In the second tale up and coming boxer Eddie Megeffin (Matt Dillon) is pressured by his beautiful young wife Arlene (Kyra Sedgwick) to accept a big payday bout with a championship contender. Although he's not ready Eddie is eager to please Arlene - who has been all but forgotten due to his rigorous training schedule. Will Eddie's sacrifices pay off? Or will Arlene simply Return to Kansas City. Directed by Walter Bernstein. The third story sees the writer Henry (Scott Glenn) befriend Mara (Juliette Binoche) a prostitute. Struck by her mysterious charm and beauty he invites her to dinner and the two are passionately drawn together. Henry offers the kindness Mara has never known but is it too threatening to her pained existence? Mara written by Henry Miller is the touching tale of two lovers whose entire relationship is limited to a single night. Directed by Mike Figgis.

• Le Viol Du Vampire (The Rape of the Vampire) | DVD | (10/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cult director Jean Rollin's first feature mixes existentialism and vampirism with the added ingredient of chaos. Originally made as a short it was expanded to a feature length with the dead cast inexplicably returning to life half-way through (having been killed off at the end of the original). That said 'Le Viol du Vampire' is a masterpiece of the bizarre mixing blood a naked woman in a convertable coffins and some fencing semi-naked nymphs in a fragmented melee. When originally screened in Paris in 1968 the film caused a riot due to its' audacious imagery...

• Brodeuses | DVD | (10/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this film we meet the young Claire. Despite her age, she is barely 17, she lives independently for a while in a room in the provincial town of Angoul me. Because she lives alone she can hide her surroundings for a while that she is pregnant. By chance she comes in contact with Ms. Melikian, a somewhat older woman who runs a studio where she works with dresses from Paris designers. Ms. Malikian has just lost her son and takes Claire under her wing. Widescreen 16:9 (1.85) French Dolby Digita.