"Actor: Emmanuelle Riva"

• Three Colours Blue | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first instalment of the late Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, the three colours of the French flag. Blue is the most sombre of the three, a movie dominated by feelings of grief. As the film begins, a car accident claims the life of a well-known composer. His wife, played by Juliette Binoche (Oscar winner for The English Patient), does not so much put the pieces of her life back together as start an entirely new existence. She moves to Paris, where she dissolves into a wordless life virtually without other people. Kieslowski attaches an almost subconscious significance to the colour blue but primarily he focuses on Binoche's luminous face and the way her subtle shifts in emotion flicker and disappear. The picture may be more enigmatic than the follow-ups White and Red but Binoche's quiet, heartbreaking presence becomes spellbinding; her performance won the best actress prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1993. --Robert Horton

• Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (03/01/2022) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from ALAIN RESNAIS (Last Year at Marienbad) is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Amour's EMMANUELLE RIVA) and a Japanese architect (Woman in the Dunes' EIJI OKADA) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. With an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Awardnominated screenplay by novelist MARGUERITE DURAS (India Song), Hiroshima mon amour is a moody masterwork that delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish. Special Features New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie Interviews with director Alain Resnais from 1961 and 1980 Interviews with actor Emmanuelle Riva from 1959 and 2003 New interview with film scholar François Thomas, author of L'atelier d'Alain Resnais New interview with music scholar Tim Page about the film's score Revoir Hiroshima . . . , a 2013 program about the film's restoration New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones and excerpts from a 1959 Cahiers du cinéma roundtable discussion about the film

• Amour | DVD | (18/03/2013) from £8.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (78.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Focusing on the lives of an elderly couple and the strain their relationship undergoes after one of them suffers a mild stroke, Amour is one of the most powerfully moving, emotionally devastating pieces of cinema ever made. From one of, if not the greatest director working today – Michael Haneke. Winner of the 2012 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

• Amour | Blu Ray | (18/03/2013) from £10.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Focusing on the lives of an elderly couple and the strain their relationship undergoes after one of them suffers a mild stroke, Amour is one of the most powerfully moving, emotionally devastating pieces of cinema ever made. From one of, if not the greatest director working today – Michael Haneke. Winner of the 2012 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

• Lost In Paris | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

• Leon Morin, Pretre | DVD | (02/03/2009) from £8.34   |  Saving you £9.65 (115.71%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Unforgettable drama set in occupied France. A beautiful but disillusioned woman becomes friends with a priest but her feelings for him soon deepen dangerously.

• Hiroshima Mon Amour | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-1.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Alain Resnais' groundbreaking first feature Hiroshima Mon Amour was a springboard for the French New Wave movement and its influence continues to this day. A nameless French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief passionate affair in post-war Hiroshima. Their deeply intense connection brings out scarred memories of love and suffering which Resnais' communicates with the use of flashback techniques innovative to that time.

• Lost In Paris | Blu Ray | (04/12/2017) from £16.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

• Michael H: Profession Director | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Over the last 25 years Michael Haneke has established himself as one of the most important directors in cinema history. From his early work to Amour he has created a unique universe revealing like no other the darkest corners of society our existential fears and emotional outbursts. Through interviews with his actors Isabelle Huppert Juliette Binoche and Emmanuelle Riva and much more as well as previously unseen footage Michael H. depicts the work of a rare artist.

• Hiroshima Mon Amour | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alain Resnais' truly amazing debut feature digitally remastered from the restored print! This powerful and moving love story is set in the late fifties and involves a French film actress (Emanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) who embark on a brief affair in Hiroshima. The intimacy of the encounter makes them reflect on the painful history of the city and the tragedy and humiliation that befell her during a disastrous affair with a German soldier in her home town in wa

• Skylab | DVD | (09/12/2013) from £8.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (135.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1979. 10-year-old Albertine and all her relatives have gathered in the family house in Brittany for their grandmother’s birthday. All believe the Skylab a piece of a NASA rocket will fall on their heads that summer. This reunion turns out to be a crazy weekend of revelations that none of them expected... Starring Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) Eric Elmosnino (Gainsbourg) and Julie Delpy (Before Midnight 2 Days in Paris) SKYLAB is a wonderfully quirky off-beat coming-of-age tale.

• Leon Morin, Pretre | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £11.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (80.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A story of an unfulfilled love affair set against the troubled backdrop of the French Occupation. Barny is a young widow she is also a militant communist and atheist who one day enters a church and randomly picks a priest to taunt. Leon Morin is a Catholic priest: he is also young handsome and unconventional in his religious approach. The two begin a platonic relationship but soon Barny's admiration for Morin turns to desire and he becomes the object of her romantic obsession

• Hiroshima Mon Amour | Blu Ray | (18/01/2016) from £31.03   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An extraordinary and deeply moving film that retains much of its power since its original release in 1959, Alain Resnais's Hiroshima, Mon Amour is the story of a French woman (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese man (Eiji Okada) who become lovers in the city of Hiroshima, where the US dropped a nuclear bomb to end World War Two in the Pacific. Written by Marguerite Duras and juggled, as if by wandering thoughts, in chronology and setting by Resnais, the film reveals the miserable and mortifying experiences of each character during the war and suggests the obvious healing properties of their relationship in the present. An emotional allusion or two can certainly be made with the more recent The English Patient, but nothing can quite prepare one for Resnais's extreme yet intuitively accessible experiments in fusing the past, present and future into great sweeps of subjectively experienced memory. Yet audiences have never had trouble relating to this bold milestone of the French New Wave, largely because at its heart is a genuinely affecting, soulful love story. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Adua e Le Compagne | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1961 and the Best Italian Film of the Year this a true classic of Italian cinema. A morality tale. Can people shake off their past? Will others alllow them to? Four prostitutes abandon their 'working girl' lifestyle after a change in the law closes their bordello. They open a restaraunt. Flourishing successful and happy they find that their past comes back to haunt them as they are reported to the police and forced to co

• Hiroshima Mon Amour | DVD | (18/01/2016) from £24.28   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An extraordinary and deeply moving film that retains much of its power since its original release in 1959, Alain Resnais's Hiroshima, Mon Amour is the story of a French woman (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese man (Eiji Okada) who become lovers in the city of Hiroshima, where the US dropped a nuclear bomb to end World War Two in the Pacific. Written by Marguerite Duras and juggled, as if by wandering thoughts, in chronology and setting by Resnais, the film reveals the miserable and mortifying experiences of each character during the war and suggests the obvious healing properties of their relationship in the present. An emotional allusion or two can certainly be made with the more recent The English Patient, but nothing can quite prepare one for Resnais's extreme yet intuitively accessible experiments in fusing the past, present and future into great sweeps of subjectively experienced memory. Yet audiences have never had trouble relating to this bold milestone of the French New Wave, largely because at its heart is a genuinely affecting, soulful love story. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com