"Actor: Marie Trintignant"

• Harrison's Flowers | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £5.85   |  Saving you £12.14 (207.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An implausible plot doesn't prevent Harrison's Flowers from being a harrowing and moving depiction of the cost of war. Andie MacDowell stars as Sarah Lloyd, the wife of a photojournalist reported lost in the 1991 civil war raging between ethnic divisions in the former Yugoslavia. Refusing to believe her husband is dead, Sarah flies to Austria and then drives into the heart of the war, where she teams up with other photographers (Adrien Brody and Brendan Gleeson), who help her find a small town where her husband was last seen--while all around them rages one of the most horrific conflicts of the late 20th century. The story is barely credible, but the depiction of the war itself is stunning, and the depiction of the lives of photojournalists--partly thrill-seeking voyeurs, partly truth tellers--is complex and compelling. Though MacDowell isn't a great actress, all the performances are solid, and Brody is outstanding. --Bret Fetzer

• The Essential Claude Chabrol Vol. 2 (3 disc box set) | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles include: The Colour of Lies (1999): In a small Breton town a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. Ren'' her art teacher a professional painter is the last person to have seen her alive. Masks (1987): Roland Wolf wants to write a book about a TV game-show host the hail-fellow-well-met Christian Legagneur who invites Wolf to his country estate promising several days of lengthy interviews. The Story Of Women (1988)

• The Claude Chabrol Collection Vol.1 | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Merci Pour le Chocolat: In Claude Chabrol's taut thriller Isabelle Huppert finds herself in the middle of an intricate and murderous web of deception. Betty: A young woman's life is thrown into turmoil when both her husband and in-laws decide to force a divorce onto her. Inspector Lavardin: Jean Poiret plays the inspector who finds himself confronting his ex while solving an unusual murder in a small sleepy village.

• Deep In The Woods | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Deep in the Woods is an average horror film, unusual only because it was made in France. A troupe of young actors who specialise in school performances are hired by sinister aristocrat Francois Berleand to perform their "Little Red Riding Hood" act at his remote mansion as a birthday treat for his strangely silent grandson. As is often the case, the film works better in the early stages as it piles on the omens and disturbing touches, with unsettling byplay between host and guests, than it does in the extended finale, which features the familiar demises of most of the cast as someone dressed in the Big Bad Wolf costume stalks with a spear-gun and unorthodox use is made of a handy nail gun. The young, attractive victims bicker and get naked just like in a rubbish American movie and leading lady/likely survivor Clotilde Courau (best known as the young Anne Parillaud in Map of the Human Heart) is wasted in a nothing role, but mad people Berleand and Lavant provide some entertainment value.--Kim Newman

• Les Apprentis | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Antoine (Francois Cluzet) an aspiring playwright scrapes together a living writing for a magazine and creating crosswords. His flat mate Fred (Guillaume Depardieu) is a full time slacker rarely rising from the couch unless trying to score with the ladies. Their routine is shattered when they find out their apartment is about to be sold so they hatch a hare-brained scam to raise some funds to avoid homelessness.

• Portraits Chinois | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ada (Helen Bonham Carter) is an English fashion designer living a vaguely dissatisfied life with screenwriter Paul in a new home which is a bit above their means. Guido Paul's writing partner is having relationship problems of his own with Stephanie. And Guido and Paul are seriously late in delivering their script to Alphonse a young director with diminishing patience. Into this comes Lise an up and coming fashion designer who derails Ada's career by snagging a major assignment and making romantic advances at Paul. The lives loves deceptions triumphs and tragedies of this circle of self-absorbed over-achieving Parisians becomes more confusing convoluted and entangled leading to a surprising finale that blurs fiction and reality in a very Woody Allen way.