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• Code Unknown | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £7.83   |  Saving you £12.16 (155.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the prelude to Code Unknown, we watch as a class of deaf children play a very sophisticated game of charades. In response to a blank-faced girl shrinking slowly against a wall, the children guess: is it sadness, isolation, loneliness? We are not told the answer before director Michael Haneke cuts to the extraordinary opening sequence of the film. This nine-minute tracking shot along a busy Parisian boulevard, introduces the film's central characters: Amadou, a first generation French boy of West African descent; Maria, a Romanian illegal immigrant; and Anne (Juliette Binoche), a French actress, trying to make the leap from theatre to film. However, this is the only time we will see these characters together in one place before the film fractures into a series of vignettes, which slowly describe their lives, their cultural isolation and their search for small moments of beauty within this alienation.Michael Haneke has been credited with reinvigorating and refreshing Austrian cinema with expectation-smashing early films such as Funny Games; if his newest pan-European films are anything to go by, he could be set to do the same for Euro cinema in general. Though Code Unknown is very different from Haneke's Benny's Video or Funny Games, like them this film also implicates and involves the viewer in the guilt of the on-screen characters. Its structure of intricately woven story strands is entirely provocative and stirring--politically, aesthetically and emotionally. It's exactly the type of film you want to watch again and again. As with the players of the opening game of charades, we won't be given any easy answers to questions about our collective guilt in the racism and alienation of an undeniably multicultural, multiethnic Europe. --Tricia Tuttle

• The Farewell | DVD | (26/12/2001) from £10.11   |  Saving you £9.88 (97.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956 Bertolt Brecht prepares to leave his tranquil lakeside house in Brandenburg for Berlin and the upcoming theatre season. Most of the many women in his life are there: his wife daughter old lovers and latest flames including a beautiful young actress and a women whose affections and body he shares with her political activist husband. The serenity of the countryside stands a stark contrast to the deep volatile emotions o

• Heart Of Glass | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Perhaps most notable for the fact that all but one of the cast perform quite literally under the hypnotic spell of the director himself 'HEart Of Glass' is one of Werner Herzog's most stylised challenging and visionary films. A stunning piece of work in 1977 the film was awarded the German Gold Film Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography. When the owner of the local glass factory passes away without divulging the secret formula for making a magical ruby g

• Woyzeck | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Werner Herzog's brilliant adaptation of Georg Buchner's 'Woyzeck' Klaus Kinski delivers a wild and stunning performance in a role only he could play. Franz Woyzeck (Kinski) is a hapless solider alone and powerless in society assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control. Abused and tortured both physically and psychologically by commanding officers doctors and his unfaithful wife Marie (Eva Mattes Best Supporting Actress at Cannes) Woyzeck struggles to hold on to his

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