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• Romanzo Criminale | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £4.90   |  Saving you £11.09 (226.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Three childhood friends set out to conquer the streets of Rome in this vivid and ferocious movie.

• The Son's Room | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £9.27   |  Saving you £13.71 (218.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Son's Room, which picked up the 2001 Palme d'Or at Cannes, marks a departure for writer-director Nanni Moretti. The films that made his name outside Italy, Dear Diary and Aprile, were both highly personal and politicised semi-documentaries, and a strong political sense underlies the half-dozen or so features he made before them. By contrast, The Son's Room is a subtle, intense study of a family cracking apart under the impact of grief, with no overt political element. For all that, it's the most moving film that Moretti's yet made. "It captured me" he says "more than any other [story] I'd worked on previously. It's a film in which the director shares his emotions with the audience, without imposing his own feelings." As usual, the director plays his own lead character. Here he's Giovanni, a successful psychiatrist in a provincial Italian city (Ancona on the Adriatic coast). He has a beautiful wife, happy in her own career, and two bright, good-looking teenage children, a son and a daughter. Then, out of nowhere, tragedy strikes and in its aftermath, the fissures begin to show in the idyllic façade. Giovanni in particular reveals the insecurities and neuroses lurking behind his tolerant, easy-going demeanour. Moretti homes in on his characters with clear-eyed compassion, never milking the tragedy for facile sentiment but sparing us nothing of the gut-wrenching grief they feel. Nor does he succumb to the temptation of a feel-good happy ending: we are left with a hint of hope for the future, but no more. This is intelligent, mature filmmaking that respects its audience. On the DVD: The Son's Room comes to disc with just the trailer--and the flabby US trailer at that. A commentary from Moretti would have been more than welcome. Still, the transfer, in the original 1.66:1 ratio, is impeccable, with Dolby Digital 2.0 sound to match. --Philip Kemp

• Blame It On Fidel | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (48.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Adapted for the screen and directed by Julie Gavras Blame It On Fidel focuses on feisty Parisienne girl Anna whose cosy bourgeois life is turned upside down when her parents discover radical socialism. It is 1970 and nine-year old Anna (Kervel) is not amused. Seemingly overnight her bourgeois family have decided to abandon their middle class life and transform into leftist radicals. Gone is the grand family pad gone are the new clothes and humiliatingly gone are Anna's beloved Catechism lessons. In their place is a cramped apartment filled with bearded revolutionaries demonstrations and refugee nannies with strange cooking habits. Meanwhile Anna decides to rebel in her own way.

• 1992 | DVD | (26/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  February 17, 1992: The arrest of Italian politician, Mario Chiesa, on charges of corruption, sets in motion a series of large-scale investigations and trials that go under the name of Clean Hands . At the heart of the story are six ordinary people whose lives are shattered by the socio-political earthquake set in motion by this judicial operation of unprecedented scope and power. These six interwoven storylines compose an engrossing tapestry of Italy's hottest and most dramatic year in contemporary history.

• Le Fate Ignoranti | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ozpetek the director of 'Hamam: Turkish Bath' has lived in the melting pot Ostiense district of Rome for 15 years and sets his third film there with considerable observational skill. That's one of the pleasures of his story which has two of Italy's best actors in parts that require the kind of concentration few others could sustain. Antonia is a middle class and happily married wife devastated by her husband's sudden death and further sent into depresssion when she discovers an ol

• Last Kiss | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Carlo's life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime girlfriend Giulia announces she's pregnant. With his friends Alberto the stud slacker Paolo and unhappily married Adriano all have issues and all want very different things from what they've got... Winner of the World Cinema Audience Award at the 2002 Sundance Independent Film Festival. The film is a remake of Federico Fellini's 'I Vitelloni' (1953).