"Director: Denis Cote"

• Curling | Blu Ray | (13/04/2020) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A unique voice in contemporary French-Canadian cinema, the genre-blending films of Denis Cote combine low-budget ingenuity with daring formal experimentation. Often concerned with relationships between marginal and marginalised characters, Cote s work is consistently imaginative and invigorating. Winner of the Best Director and Best Actor (Emmanuel Bilodeau) awards at the 2010 Locarno International Film Festival, Curling is set on the fringes of society, in a remote part of rural Québec. The film examines the unusual private life of Jean-François, a single father, who works at a deserted bowling alley at night and in a rundown motel during the day, and his daughter, Julyvonne, who he insists never leaves their home. Their isolation, and the fragile balance of their relationship, is jeopardised by Julyvonne s encroaching adolescence and her curiosity about the outside world that Jean-François so fears. Blu-ray Special Edition Contents Curling (2010) presented from a brand new HD transfer of the film, approved by the director New filmed interview with director Denis Côté. May We Sleep Soundly (Que nous nous assoupissions, 2015) - Côté s acclaimed short film. Booklet featuring writing by film critic Adam Nayman and Robert McSorley, Executive Director of the Canadian Film Institute. Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C) Original soundtrack in 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio & 2.0 Stereo LPCM (16-bit) World premiere on Blu-ray

• Joy Of Man's Desiring | DVD | (25/04/2016) from £10.48   |  Saving you £7.50 (88.34%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An open-ended exploration of the energies and rituals of various workplaces. From one worker to another and one machine to the next; hands, faces, breaks, toil: what kind of absurdist, abstract dialogue can be started between human beings and their need to work? What is the value of the time we spend multiplying and repeating the same motions that ultimately lead to a rest - a state of repose whose quality defies definition.