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• Hotel Du Nord | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  ""Atmosphre? Atmosphre? Est-ce que j'ai une gueule d'atmosphre?"" Hotel du Nord is the second part of Marcel Carne's ""fatalistic romantic melodramas"" following Quai des Brumes and later completed by Le Jour se Leve. Renee (Annabella) and Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) take a room at the shabby Parisian Hotel du Nord with the intention of seeing through a suicide pact. However Pierre shoots Annabella but cannot turn the gun on himself. Seedy pimp Monsieur

• Toni | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Financed by Marcel Pagnol's production company Jean Renoir's Toni is a landmark in French filmmaking. Based on a police dossier concerning a provincial crime of passion it was lensed by Claude Renoir on location (unusually for the time) in the small town of Les Martigues where the actual events occurred. The use of directly-recorded sound authentic patois lack of make-up a large ensemble cast of local citizens in supporting roles and Renoir's steadfast desire to avoid m