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• Angel On The Right | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £7.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (164.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on an old Islamic legend that recounts that everyone has two invisible angels one on each shoulder that record the good and bad deeds and thoughts committed during your life: the angel on the left counting the bad whilst the angel on the right looks after the good. Straight out of a Russian jail an unrepentant prodigal son returns to his hometown Asht to help his mother die with dignity. However his debts in his hometown are many and long overdue: the townspeople are tough

• To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (50.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die marks director Djamshed Usmonov (Angel On The Right) out as one of the brightest talents of post-Soviet cinema. Sparer bleaker and much more unsettling than his previous films it stars Khurched Golibekov as the sullen wide-eyed Kamal who has been married for a few months but is unable to consummate his marriage. Learning that there is nothing physically wrong with him after visiting a doctor Kamal sets off to town to find a woman. With his child-like country-boy naivete he struggles to meet anyone until a chance encounter on a bus. This accidental meeting takes him on a far more troubling and darker journey than he was counting on... Compared by critics to Krzysztof Kieslowski's A Short Film On Love Usmonov's sure-footed direction and storytelling make for a film that gently gradually pulls the rug from under out feet in a classic example of less-is-more film-making.