"Director: Manoel De Oliveira"

• I'm Going Home | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of France's greatest screen stars Michel Piccoli plays Gilbert Valence a grand old theatre actor who is given the shocking news that his wife daughter and son-in-law have been tragically killed in a car accident. Some time later and over the worst of his grief Valence busies himself with his daily life in Paris turning down unsuitable roles in low brow television productions and caring for his nine-year old grandson. But when an American filmmaker (John Malkovich) absurdly

• Eccentricities of a Blonde Hai | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Macrio spends an entire train journey to the Algarve talking to a woman he does not know about the trials and tribulations of his love life: straight after starting his first job he falls madly in love with a young blonde who lives across the road. No sooner does he meet her than he wants to marry her. His uncle totally opposed to the match kicks him out of the house and Macrio departs for Cape Verde where he makes his fortune. When he finally wins his uncle's approval to marry his beloved he discovers the singularity of his fiance's character.

• Belle Toujour | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £7.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliviera pays homage to Luis Bunuel's masterful exercise in surreal eroticism Belle de Jour with this latter-day sequel. 40 years on whilst attending a concert Henri Husson is startled to see Severine and follows her begging for a chance to have dinner. While she's reluctant to acknowledge him he eventually wears her down with the promise of revealing an old secret. Meeting at dinner Severine expects Henri to disclose the revelation: what he told her husband 40 years ago while he was paralysed from a gunshot wound inflicted by a lover. While Henri knew Severine's secret he never told her if he did (or did not) reveal her secret life to her wheelchair-bound husband and she's long wondered if he ever betrayed her confidences. However motivated by revenge he refuses to disclose the secret and leaves her in despair having satisfied his sadism and avenged his ego.

• Belle De Jour/Belle Toujours | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Belle De Jour : Undoubtedly Luis Bunuel's most accessible film Belle de Jour is an elegant and erotic masterpiece that maintains as hypnotic a grip on modern audiences as it did on its debut 30 years ago. Screen icon Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion) plays Severine the glacially beautiful sexually unfulfilled wife of a surgeon whose blood runs icy with ennui until she takes a day-job in a brothel. There she meets a charismatic but sinister young gangster (Pierre Cl''menti) and ignites an obsession that will court peril. In Belle Toujours his homage to Luis Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carriere Manoel De Oliveira reunites the leading characters from Bunuel's erotic masterpiece the 1967 classic Belle De Jour. French cinema icon Michel Piccoli returns as Henri Husson - older and wiser but still every bit the sadist libertine who in the original both lusted after and callously taunted Catherine Deneuve's Severine to the very end. What exactly did Husson whisper into the ear of her paraplegic husband? Did he reveal Severine's double life as a high class prostitute? In Belle Toujours Severine is played by Bulle Ogier whom Piccoli's Husson first spots sitting a few rows away from him at a concert in Paris. A cat and mouse game ensures until Husson manages to gain her attention with the intention of revealing the secret that he alone can unfold. After years of lingering torment Severine is finally offered a chance to uncover the truth. As elegant as Severine as playful as Husson Belle Toujours is a lovely meditation about memory the persistence of desire lost opportunities and the power of stories.