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• The Bride Wore Black | Blu Ray | (20/11/2023) from £16.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim) stars as the titular bride, who after marrying her love sees him murdered on the steps outside the church. From here she enacts her ruthless revenge on the group of men responsible. Undoubtedly an influence on Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, François Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black was itself influenced by the director's idol, Alfred Hitchcock. Adapting celebrated crime writer Cornel Woolrich (who was also the author of the short story Hitchcock's Rear Window is based on) Truffaut's film is a deliciously entertaining tale that was one of the director's biggest hits. Alongside Moreau, the film boasts a sensational cast, including Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Clude Brialy, Charles Denner and Michel Bouquet among others, and features a score by the maestro, Bernard Herrman (Psycho). Product Features High-Definition digital transfer Original uncompressed mono PCM audio Archival interviews with François Truffaut and Jeanne Moreau (1968, 1969) Appreciation by filmmaker Kent Jones (Hitchcock/Truffaut) Barry Forshaw on Cornel Woolrich and the adaptation Trailer Optional English subtitles

• The Bride Wore Black | Blu Ray | (15/05/2023) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim) stars as the titular bride, who after marrying her love sees him murdered on the steps outside the church. From here she enacts her ruthless revenge on the group of men responsible. Undoubtedly an influence on Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, François Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black was itself influenced by the director's idol, Alfred Hitchcock. Adapting celebrated crime writer Cornel Woolrich (who was also the author of the short story Hitchcock's Rear Window is based on) Truffaut's film is a deliciously entertaining tale that was one of the director's biggest hits. Alongside Moreau, the film boasts a sensational cast, including Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Clude Brialy, Charles Denner and Michel Bouquet among others, and features a score by the maestro, Bernard Herrman (Psycho). Limited Edition Special Features High-Definition digital transfer Original uncompressed mono PCM audio Archival interviews with François Truffaut and Jeanne Moreau (1968, 1969) Appreciation by filmmaker Kent Jones (Hitchcock/Truffaut) Barry Forshaw on Cornel Woolrich and the adaptation Trailer Optional English subtitles Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film, archival writing by Truffaut and more

• The Man Who Loved Women | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £19.39   |  Saving you £-3.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A deceptively simple film, Francois Truffaut's The Man Who Loved Women is neither an indictment nor an apology for philandering; rather, it's a courageous, lovingly detailed portrait of a complex, intelligent man suffering from an altogether intractable complaint. Scientist Bertrand Morane, "never in the company of men after 5", seduces women by evening and writes about the experiences in the early morning. Though 40-ish and somewhat square, no woman in the town of Montpelier seems capable of resisting his earnest advances. Not much else happens in them film, but in the hands of master visual storyteller Truffaut, the threadbare plot accumulates deep and ominous philosophical resonances. What drives Morane from woman to woman, and what accounts for his remarkable success? Does he secretly dislike women and consider them interchangeable (as one of the more prurient characters charges, to Morane's genuine befuddlement), or is his enthusiasm a kind of celebration? Truffaut refuses to answer plainly, but does drop clues; as his camera focuses on everyday objects, many take on a chilling, otherworldly lustre, and coldly foreshadow Morane's fate. This film was clumsily remade in English in 1983 by Blake Edwards, with Burt Reynolds assuming the role played here with such understated skill by the wonderful Charles Denner. --Miles Bethany

• The Bride Wore Black | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  She was a bride when the violence happened... Now she's a widow and it's going to happen again. An engrossing enigmatic tale of passion and revenge this 1969 Golden Globe Nominee from director Francois Truffaut and co-writer Jean Louis Richard. The bewitching Jeanne Moreau is remarkable as a woman who will stop at nothing to avenge her husband's death. Julie (Moreau) a beautiful young bride has just married her childhood sweetheart and love of her life. But just moments after the ceremony her beloved is murdered on the steps of the church. Emotionally distraught Julie becomes obsessed with her bridegroom's death and begins a descent into madness as she relentlessly pursues the men responsible. One by one Julie sees to their demises and with each murder more bone-chilling and diabolically clever than the last the question is not who will be next - but rather how they will meet their ghastly end.

• A Beautiful Girl Like Me | Blu Ray | (15/09/2014) from £10.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (90.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A sociologist researching a book interviews murderess Camille who tells him the story of her life. Put in a reform school as a child for suspected patricide and later transferred to an orphanage she escaped and tricked a young man called Clovis into marrying her. After attempting to kill Clovis' mother she fled to Paris where she began an affair with a night-club singer. Camille has left a trail of destruction and deceit in her wake which now threatens to engulf the sociologist.

• A Beautiful Girl Like Me | DVD | (15/09/2014) from £9.56   |  Saving you £6.43 (40.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A sociologist researching a book interviews murderess Camille who tells him the story of her life. Put in a reform school as a child for suspected patricide and later transferred to an orphanage she escaped and tricked a young man called Clovis into marrying her. After attempting to kill Clovis' mother she fled to Paris where she began an affair with a night-club singer. Camille has left a trail of destruction and deceit in her wake which now threatens to engulf the sociologist.

• A Gorgeous Girl Like Me | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £19.33   |  Saving you £0.66 (3.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist he meets Camille Bliss who is in prison to interview her as researching for a book entitled Women Criminals... Camille is accused of having murdered her lover Arthur and her husband Clovis. She tells Stanislas her life and her love affairs...