"Actor: Elisabeth Rath"

• Falling For A Dancer | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set in the breathtakingly beautiful and strictly traditional Ireland of the 1940's Falling For A Dancer is a passionate tale of the loves and challenges of the beautiful and sensitive Elizabeth Sullivan (Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh). The story begins when 19 year old Elizabeth falls pregnant after a brief affair with a dashing actor. Shamed she is forced to marry Neely Scollard (Dermot Crowley) a widower with a large family who lives in the remote Beara Peninsula. Elizabeth has to come to terms with motherhood her brutish husband her mysterious neighbour Mossie Sheehan (Liam Cunningham) her step children and the harsh realities of a rural existence. When a carefree moment at a village dance leads to a violent death a chain of events is unleashed that will change Elizabeth's life forever.

• The Seventh Continent | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on a true story Haneke's first theatrical feature is a disturbing portrait of familial disintegration which he describes as a depiction of his native Austria's 'progressive emotional glaciation'. Set over a three year period it documents how the mundane day to day routines of a middle class family alienate them from the world and each other until suddenly and shockingly their lives self-destruct. Addressing themes that would inform much of his later work - the breakdown of society violence and the media - 'The Seventh Continent' is both intelligent and masterfully composed.