"Director: Catherine Breillat"

• Romance | DVD | (10/11/2014) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Shockingly explicit blurring the lines between art and pornography Catherine Breillat's critically-acclaimed Romance is one of the most controversial and notorious films of modern cinema. A young schoolteacher frustrated by the lack of intimacy shown by her boyfriend begins to look elsewhere for physical affection and embarks on a series of increasingly extreme sexual encounters.

• Romance | Blu Ray | (15/07/2019) from £13.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Shockingly explicit, blurring the lines between art and pornography, Catherine Breillat's critically acclaimed Romance is one of the most controversial films of modern cinema. A young schoolteacher frustrated by the lack of intimacy shown by her boyfriend begins to look elsewhere for physical affection and embarks on a series of increasingly extreme sexual encounters. Special Features: Brand new scan and restoration New interview with Catherine Breillat New interview with Caroline Ducey New interview with Jean-Francoise Lepetit

• The Last Mistress | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Secrets rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.

• A Ma Soeur! | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Catherine Breillat's A Ma Soeur! is a touchingly honest but also highly disturbing account of two French middle-class teenage sisters' family holiday. As sexually explicit as Breillat's earlier picture, Romance, this film focuses on the travails of flabby 12-year-old Anais Pingot (Anais Reboux), who is the bane and the opposite of her glamorous elder sister Elena (Roxane Mesquida). Constantly having to live in the shadow of Elena and being nagged by her workaholic father (Romain Goupil), lonely Anais resorts to eating and her imagination for pleasure. Her 15-year-old sister, in contrast, is desperate to find romantic love. Their differences are harshly exposed when Elena starts a frantic affair with Italian law student Fernando (Libero De Rienzo). To minimise the risk of being discovered by their parents, Anais accompanies Fernando and Elena throughout their clumsy encounters. She's even present during the pair's sexual experimentation. Anais Reboux's depiction of an introverted young woman is both shocking and true to life, particularly the scene when she swims around a swimming pool kissing and conversing with the pool's diving board and steps as if they were imaginary lovers. The film actually thrives on very little, a simple plot, a 25-minute bedroom scene, and the monotony of the fatal motorway trip home. Like violence itself, the violent ending is a particularly pointless and baffling finale for an otherwise thought-provoking film. On the DVD: A Ma Soeur! on DVD can be viewed with or without English subtitles. The bonus material includes biographies of the leading actors and the director, a theatrical trailer and promotional images from the film. Tom Dawson's excellent notes booklet provide an informed insight into the production of the movie. The anamorphic picture is good, as is the Dolby Stereo soundtrack. --John Galilee

• Anatomy Of Hell | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £12.13   |  Saving you £7.86 (39.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  French auteur Catherine Breillat's taxing deconstruction of supposed male attitudes ranging from bafflement to disgust to female anatomy... Wanting to explore the outer limits of her physicality a woman (Amira Cesar) walks into a gay bar and slashing her wrists in the toilet picks up a gay man (Rocco Siffredi) and takes him home. Over four days they explore a sexual relationship which takes on an increasingly extreme urgency. Adapting her own poetic-polemic novel for the screen

• Bluebeard | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the 1950s Bluebeard was the favourite tale of good little girls one of whom is Catherine who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Marie-Catherine Bluebeard's last wife the one who escapes the fate of all those he hanged before her because she is the virgin princess that the ogre cannot make up his mind to kill. This hesitation will doom him and allow the virgin to get the head of the giant.

• Anatomy Of Hell | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £7.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (66.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Over four nights in a house in the middle or nowhere a woman on the verge pays a handsome stranger to watch her where she's unwatchable. Flouting all conventions and breaking all boundaries the two enter into a stunning and daring exploration of sexuality at its most fundamental. Confronting the unspeakable discovering the unshowable and sharing the unsharable they learn the real secrets of how men truly see women and how women truly see themselves.

• Bluebeard | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £8.45   |  Saving you £7.54 (89.23%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the 1950s, Bluebeard was the favourite tale of good little girls, one of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's last wife, the one who escapes the fate of all those he hanged before her because she is the virgin princess that the ogre cannot make up his mind to kill. This hesitation will doom him, and allow the virgin to get the head of the giant.

• Brief Crossing | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On an overnight ferry ride French sixteen year old Thomas strikes up a conversation with English thirtysomething Alice. She invites him to share her table and as the evening progresses the nave yet full of bravado teenager engages in mutual flirtation with his older companion. With the sexual tension building they head for Alice's cabin. From the controversial director of Romance and A Ma Soeur comes a compelling and explicit portrayal of a brief sexual encounter that leads to a bitter conclusion.

• Sex Is Comedy | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Catherine Breillat's film 'Sex Is Comedy' was inspired by her own experiences shooting a sex scene in her controversial feature 'A Ma Soeur'. Anne Parillaud plays film director Jeanne a demanding perfectionist who has a challenge on her hands creating convincing on-screen passion between her reluctant young lead actor and actress (Gregoire Colin and Roxane Mesquida) who can barely conceal their dislike for each other. But the shooting of the film's most intimate scene brings the grow

• Romance | DVD | (10/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Romance follows a young French woman, Marie, and her journey to gain control of her life.