"Actor: Laurent"

• Raw | Blu Ray | (08/08/2022) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Strict vegetarian Justine faces a merciless onslaught of hazing rituals during her first week at veterinary school. One of these is the eating of raw meat and desperate to fit in she can't refuse. This taste of flesh not only compromises her principles but awakens an uncontrollable craving with horrific consequences. Product Features The Girl Can't Help It: a new interview with Actor Garance Marillier Making Ends Meat: a new interview with Producer Jean des Forets New audio commentary by film critic Alexandra West Audio Commentary with Julia Ducournau and film critic Emma Westwood In the Name of Raw: an interview with Director Julia Ducournau A Family Affair: a new video essay by film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Raw À Votre Goût featurette with Julia Ducournau & film critic Emma Westwood Quick Bites with Julia Ducournau & film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Genre Matters Panel Discussion Australian Premiere Introduction Australian Premiere Q&A with Julia Ducournau and Kier-La Janisse Alternative opening, deleted scenes, trailers

• The Crimson Rivers | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £7.96   |  Saving you £5.03 (63.19%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases.

• The Disappearance | Blu Ray | (04/07/2016) from £12.49   |  Saving you £2.51 (20.10%)   |  RRP £15.00

  All eight episodes from the French drama series starring Francois-Xavier Demaison as Bertrand Molina, a detective sent to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young teenager at a music festival in Lyon. With the grieving family pressing for answers, it's not long before Molina uncovers a number of shocking secrets which could push them to breaking point.

• Jacquot De Nantes | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £9.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (63.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's the story of a child and his obsession of pursuing his dream to become a film-maker. How he buys his first camera shoots his first amateur film which marks the beginning of one of the most prestigious careers of any French director Jacques Demy. The story is told with emotion by Agnes Varda who shared his life for years.

• Witnesses Season 1 & 2 | DVD | (15/01/2018) from £38.08   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All the episodes from the first and second seasons of the French crime drama. In the first season, young detective Sandra Winckler (Marie Dompnier) takes charge of a case involving unrelated dead bodies being left inside model homes. When a photo of retired detective Paul Maisonneuve (Thierry Lhermitte) is found at the crime scene, he is forced to return to duty and help Winckler conduct her investigation. But does Maisonneuve know more about the crimes than he is willing to reveal? In the second season, when 15 frozen dead bodies are found at a bus stop Sandra is assigned to lead the investigation. With the victims all linked to the mysterious Catherine Keemer (Audrey Fleurot), Sandra does all she can to track her down, only to find that Catherine has lost her memory and has no recollection of anything that has happened. Can Sandra piece together the clues and solve the case?

• Inglourious Basterds | Blu Ray | (08/07/2024) from £54.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino's high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds. As war rages in Europe, a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers, known to their enemy as The Basterds, are on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Collector's Edition #2 includes: - Metallic finish Rigid Slipcase - Engraved Rifle (deboss) Steelbook - 36-Page Behind-the-scenes booklet - 4 x Art Cards housed in Envelope - 8 x Playing Cards

• La Bayadere | DVD | (25/10/1999) from £14.25   |  Saving you £3.74 (26.25%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A ballet in three acts by Rudolf Nureyev from the Palais Garnier. The story follows the doomed love affair between a warrior and a bayadere who is later killed by her rival...

• La Prisonniere | Blu Ray | (05/03/2018) from £12.68   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Josée is the wife of an artist whose work is exhibited in Stan Hassler's modern art gallery. Stan, impotent and depraved, satisfies himself by photographing women in humiliating poses. Josée is fascinated by the man and soon falls completely in love with him...

• The Pornographer | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £8.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (135.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An art house movie that asks questions about the morality of art both on and off screen, The Pornographer is a hard-hitting yet strangely unmoving film. Very much a product of the French school of intellectual cinema, the filmmaker of the title is Jacques Laurent (played by Jean Pierre Leaud), a one-time director of adult films who, finding himself down on his luck, is forced to return to his old medium. Far from being a gaudy Boogie Nights style exposé of an unknown world, the film focuses on Laurent's inner turmoil and his rapidly disintegrating relationship with his wife, as well as his restored one with his son Joseph (Jeremie Renier). Director Betrend Bonello handles this material well, if overdoing the art house clichés a little, but the problem with the film (or for some its strong point) comes with the fairly hardcore sex scenes, presented as part of Laurent's movie. While intended to reflect the emptiness of the character's soul, it is hard to see past them as just an attention-grabbing device. Then again, can a film about pornography legitimately not feature sex? One suspects that this debate will run and run and, in its way, The Pornographer has much to say on the subject. On the DVD: The Pornographer's intended release fell foul of the BBFC, who objected to one particularly explicit scene, a continuing argument that provides much of the material for the DVD's extra features. There is a reproduction of the BFFC ruling, a statement in reply from Bonello (which demonstrate the similarities he shares with his fictional counterpart, certainly when it comes to a vision of erotica) and an excellent essay from critic Pierre Perrene. In addition there are biographies, the cinematic trailer and an option to view the film with or without English subtitles. Whatever the moral questions involved, Bonello's film is a visual treat and his stylish eye is well represented by this format. --Phil Udell

• Hidden/The Beat That My Heart Skipped/Lemming | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £10.28   |  Saving you £14.97 (165.96%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Set Comprises: Hidden (Cache): Life seems perfect for Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche) a bourgeois Parisian couple who live in a comfortable home with their adolescent son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky). But when an anonymous videotape turns up on their doorstep showing their house under surveillance from across the street their calm life begins to spiral out of control. Subsequent videotapes arrive accompanied by mysterious drawings and gradually Georges becomes convinced that he's being tormented by a figure from his past. But when he confronts him the man assures Georges he is innocent. A growing sense of guilt begins to rise in Georges as he recalls his less-than-angelic childhood yet for some reason he's unable to be completely honest with Anne. Soon their happy home is an emotional battleground leading to a climax that is breathtaking in its ferocity and ambiguousness. Though Haneke's film works first and foremost as an insidious thriller it is also a powerful commentary on the urban paranoia and racism that continue to permeate modern society. Without using a score and keeping his camera detached and static Haneke nonetheless establishes a nearly unbearable level of tension. Not for the squeamish Hidden remains a work of menacing brilliance and was the winner of the Best Director award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. The Beat My Heart Skipped (De Battre de Mon Coeur C'est Arrete): In this follow-up to his critical success Read My Lips Jacques Audiard has adapted and updated James Toback's cult 1978 noir Fingers to come up with this memorable character study about a young man torn between a life of crime and classical music. Romain Duris in a standout performance portrays the 28 year-old Tom who seems destined to follow in his father's footsteps as a Parisian property shark working in a sleazy and sometimes brutal milieu. However a chance encounter with his late mother's music agent rekindles a desire for a musical career and hope for a better life. The Beat That My Heart Skipped premiered at Berlin 2005 where it played to enthusiastic audiences and won the Silver Bear for Best Score in addition to securing Best Film Not In The English Language at the 2006 BAFTA ceremony Lemming: Alain (Laurent Lucas) seems to have it all - a beautiful wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) a perfect home and a prestigious new engineering job. But the unexpected sexual attentions of his boss' disconcertingly glacial wife (Charlotte Rampling) and the discovery of a rodent unaccountably stuck in the waste pipe of his kitchen sink spark the beginning of a strange unsettling and sometimes shocking chain of events that disrupts Alain's orderly life and leaves him questioning his own sanity. Featuring a masterfully unnerving performance from Charlotte Rampling the new film from director Dominik Moll (Harry He's Here to Help) is a chillingly suspensful and darkly comic ps

• Paris | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £8.47   |  Saving you £11.52 (57.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The moving story of a Parisian who is sick and thinks he may die at any moment. His condition makes him look at all the people he meets in a new and different way.

• Silence Of Lorna | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £7.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (62.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Will Lorna keep silent when she finds out her husband is to be murdered by the mob?

• Dans Ma Peau | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A successful businesswoman accidentally injures herself and develops an obsession with her own wounds. Increasingly she finds secret pleasure in self harm to the detriment of her job and her loving boyfriend... A powerful and darkly disturbing French drama from newcomer Marina De Van.

• My Wife Is An Actress | DVD | (01/01/2001) from £3.85   |  Saving you £16.14 (419.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  My Wife Is an Actress ("Ma Femme Est une Actrice") stars Charlotte Gainsbourg--ex-child star, daughter of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, beautiful and accomplished actress--alongside her real-life husband Yvan Attal, who also directs. Attal is a humble sports journalist married to a famous international star (played by Gainsbourg) and uncomfortable with her celebrity. His first film as a director plays knowingly with off-screen reality: the two leads even use their own names, Charlotte and Yvan, for the characters they play. In the film, Charlotte goes to London to appear in a romantic drama opposite British movie icon John (Terence Stamp, sending himself up with some luvvie-ish posturing). Left at home, Yvan torments himself with thoughts of his wife playing sex scenes with John and his jealousy puts their marriage at risk. His visits to her on the set in London only make things worse. There's scope here for some good comedy, as well as an interesting exploration of how, in an actor's life, reality and artifice can snarl each other up. But Attal, who also scripted, makes his characters so shallow and two-dimensional that it's hard to believe in them, let alone care about them. A sub-plot about the squabbling between Yvan's sister and her husband over whether their unborn son should be circumcised (she's Jewish, he's not) feels tacked-on and tiresome. In aspiring to script and star in his directorial debut, Attal may have overstretched himself. Given a stronger script, this could have been a funnier or more searching film, or both. On the DVD: My Wife Is an Actress comes to disc in a clear full-screen transfer, although the dialogue's a little muffled here and there--a fault of the original, not the transfer. By way of extras we get the theatrical trailer, a likeably relaxed 16-minute "making of" featurette and a handful of not very interesting deleted scenes. --Philip Kemp

• Look At Me | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £5.58   |  Saving you £14.41 (258.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Quite unlike the models in her magazines, French girl Lolita struggles with her self-esteem and tries to win her father's affection.

• By The Sea | DVD | (20/06/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  By the Sea follows an American writer named Roland (Pitt) and his wife, Vanessa (Jolie Pitt), who arrive in a tranquil and picturesque seaside resort in 1970s France, their marriage in apparent crisis.

• Witnesses The Complete Season 1 | Blu Ray | (05/10/2015) from £13.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (64.33%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Desecrated graves dead bodies dug up and left in model homes… Every time the same ritual: a woman a man a teenager who weren’t related but who form a new family. Amid the bodies a photo: the one of Paul Maisonneuve a Crime Squad legend in the North of France now retired but forced to return to duty. Who is digging up the bodies? Who is leaving them in model homes and why? Young female detective Sandra Winckler in charge of the case must work with Paul Maisonneuve to find out just who is behind these macabre stage settings. During her investigation she will have to delve into Paul’s past believing him to know more than he lets on. Because that’s where the truth must lie: somewhere in Paul’s past. For the detective and the ex-cop life will never be the same… For in the shadows is a man who will stop at nothing to gain his revenge – a long planned out revenge

• Inglourious Basterds | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £2.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (57.20%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Now stunningly repackaged 50p from the sale of this DVD will be paid to Royal British Legion Trading Limited which gives its taxable profits to The Royal British Legion (Charity no. 219279) and Poppy Scotland (Scottish Charity No. SC014096). In France during World War II a group of Jewish-American soldiers are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Germans by killing Nazis. Special Features: Extended and Alternated Scenes Nations Pride Feature Domestic Trailer Teaser Trailer International Trailer Nations Pride Feature with Easter Egg Audio

• Chocolat | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A young single mother (Juliette Binoche), with her 6-year-old daughter in tow, moves to a small French village and opens an unusual chocolate shop.

• Le Jour Se Leve - 75th Anniversary Edition | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £12.56   |  Saving you £10.43 (83.04%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Marcel Carné directs this classic French romantic drama starring Jean Gabin. François (Gabin), a factory worker, has love affairs with a flower girl, Françoise (Jacqueline Laurent), and a performer, Clara (Arletty), both of whom have been involved with seedy, older man Valentin (Jules Berry). When the two men come face-to-face a jealous François ends up killing Valentin. As the police close in on him, François barricades himself in a small room, going over the events which led him into such desperate straits.