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• Le Mans | Blu Ray | (13/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Forty-five international racing stars join Steve McQueen in this gritty nerve-shattering recreation of the toughest car race on earth - Le Mans. Returning to France to compete a year after he's been injured an American driver (McQueen) finds himself drawn to the widow of a racer who was killed in the same accident. Filmed on location in France the film's spellbinding cinematography provides a dazzling look at the world's most extraordinary cars and the unique personalities of the people drawn to the race car circuit. Steve McQueen himself a championship racer did most of his own driving on the harrowing 8.5-mile Le Mans course - often at speeds exceeding 200 miles per hour.

• Stealing Beauty | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £10.78   |  Saving you £2.21 (20.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When 19-year-old Lucy arrives in Tuscany to spend the summer with her late Mother's free spirited Bohemian friends she soon finds herself in pursuit of an unfulfilled romance. Guided by the kindness and wisdon of Max Lucy finds herself battling with her emotions in a sensual adventure that leads to the ultimate enlightenment. From the director of 'The Last Emperor' Bernardo Bertolucci 'Stealing Beauty' explores one girl's intriguing journey into womanhood in a provacative story

• The Red Violin | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £9.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A skilled craftsman makes a violin for his unborn child. When tragedy strikes and his wife and child are killed he decides to finish the violin. The story follows the instrument as it travels across the centuries and changes hands many times.

• The Red Violin | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  François Girard's The Red Violin (1998) is a good-looking but ultimately insubstantial piece from a director who seems more concerned with tone, colour and style than narrative coherence. The film traces the story of a violin originally made in 17th-century Italy, which is taken to an 18th-century monastery to be played by a child prodigy. The violin later comes into the hand of a virtuoso in 19th-century Oxford, from there to China in the Cultural Revolution and on to Montreal, where--before it can be auctioned--it is "acquired"' by Samuel L Jackson. Unfortunately, none of these stories make much of an impression: the episode in Oxford is particularly weak, with Greta Scacchi wasted, and the film is even less than the sum of its parts. Jackson is completely miscast as an expert on musical instruments, even if a criminal one. To be frank, this is a poor effort, though well photographed and with a pleasing score by composer John Corigliano performed by violinist Joshua Bell. On the DVD:The disc contains a theatrical trailer but no other features. The soundtrack is excellent, in Dolby Surround. The image is equally good, in a 1.78:1 anamorphic print. --Ed Buscombe

• Hamam - The Turkish Bath | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Francesco arrives from Rome to claim his inheritance and discovers it is a decaying turkish bath in the city's ancient quarters. Run by his aunt for thirty years it is now in a state of disrepair and sought after by property developers. After a short stay Francesco is so taken by life in the city that he decides to stay and restore the hamam a decision which opens up his life to an array of powerful new emotions...

• Steam: The Turkish Bath | DVD | (05/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A