"Actor: Brigitte Catillon"

• Le Gout Des Autres | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £12.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Castella is a successful industrialist out of boredom he allows his wife to drag him to an amateur stage show. Much to his surprise he is overwhelmed by the power of the lead actress Clara. He becomes so infatuated with her that he goes back to the play night after night. His world is turned upside down and his obession impacts on the lives of everyone around. Winner of 4 Cesars including Best Film.

• Un Coeur En Hiver | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stephane and Maxime run a renowned violin making and repair business. One day Maxime introduces his partner to Camille the beautiful violinist he has being seeing. Camille is attracted to the enigmatic introverted Stephane who it seems may share her feelings but is incapable of expressing emotion. Convinced that she can find love beyond his cold exterior her attraction turns to obsession...

• Merci pour le Chocolat | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Claude Chabrol's nervy and nasty little 2001 thriller Merci Pour le Chocolat is based on Charlotte Armstrong's novel The Chocolate Cobweb. In Chabrol's hands it becomes a vehicle of considerable power for the unsettling, disturbed qualities of actress Isabelle Huppert, who has been one of his most important muses over the years (their other collaborations include La Cérémonie and Rien ne va Plus). Huppert plays Mika, the owner of a Swiss chocolate factory, now married to a world-class concert pianist (Jacques Dutronc) and with a stepson who is obsessive about making the family's drinking chocolate every day. As the clues unravel, it soon becomes clear that Mika is damaged goods. When Dutronc acquires a piano student (Anna Mougalis) in curious circumstances, Mika is forced to escalate her secret agenda. Huppert is fascinating throughout and the film is sinewy and, for the most part, rather clever, evoking shades of Hitchcock and Clouzot. Liszt's Les Funérailles is the ominous leitmotif, worked on by Dutronc and his protégé, and the Lausanne setting creates an other-worldliness which seems almost sterile. Only at the end does the picture dwindle into an almost Strindbergian inertia as Mika's motivation seems to evaporate in a rather unsatisfactory way. Until then it is spellbinding. --Piers Ford

• Moliere | DVD | (13/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £36.99

  Moliere:Disc 1:Premiere epoqueDisc 2:Deuxieme epoque

• Frankie | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (60.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fabienne Berthaud's psychodrama Frankie probes the events that led to emotional crisis mental breakdown and psychiatric hospitization for a fashion model. Nearing the age of 30 the titular ex cover girl (Diane Kruger) is neither particularly young nor thin. She instead resides in an asylum in Blois France drugged out and in a semi catatonic state. In flashback Berthaud dramatizes the events that led to this predicament. Once active before the cameras and highly sought after by agents frankie experienced a series of minor calamaties including an on set fight with a fashion photographer and the experience of accidentally hearing agents make disparaging remarks about her appearance that collectively propelled her over the edge. Amid this world of grotesque artifice the one bright spot seemed to be her ever evolving friendship with the kindly driver of the modeling agency. For now Frankie contents herself with institutional life and resists the thought of leaving and returning to the scabrousness of the real world...