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  • Casanova [1971]Casanova | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

    The Italian adventurer and libertine Giovanni Jacopo Casanova lived from 1725 to 1798 but in this six-part series Dennis Potter attempted to find a contemporary relevance through his central themes of sex and religion. He commented that Casanova ""was concerned with religious and sexual freedom and these are the things we have to address ourselves to now."" Casanova was imprisoned in Venice in 1755 and Potter used that event as a central device constantly inter-cutting to contrast C

  • Bronco Bullfrog [1969]Bronco Bullfrog | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    A 17 year old welders apprentice , meets a 15 year old girl , still at school , they fall in love and when his father and her mother both disapprove, and make things awkward, they run away . But they have nowhere to go; even when they hole up with Joe Bronco Bullfrog , who has escaped from Borstal and is in hiding, it is inevitable that the law will catch up with them soon. The film stakes all on our accepting the truth of its observations, the believability of its characters and situations, which are a picture of young life in the East End of London at the time. It is a study of character and atmosphere .

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