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• Babette's Feast | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Released in 1987, Babette's Feast is a film which depicts so little, yet says so much. Set in a rural Danish community, it centres around the twin sisters of the village pastor and the French women who serves them after fleeing the 1871 revolution. On winning the lottery she plans a feast to mark the centenary of the sisters' father, bringing a dimension of fine living into the lives of the God-fearing Lutherans and healing festering personal animosities in the process. Director Gabriel Axel captures the rugged timelessness of the Jutland landscape, and draws inspired performances from Stéphane Audran as Babette, and Bodil Keyer and Birgitte Federspiel as the sisters Filippa and Martine. Per Norgard's sparse but affecting score captures the mood of the film perfectly. Altogether it's a heart-warming and affecting experience. On the DVD: Babette's Feast on disc reproduces the vivid colour photography well in widescreen. There’s dubbing and subtitles in English, French and Italian. Both the trailers for the English- and Danish-speaking markets are included, the latter an effective summary of the film.--Richard Whitehouse

• The Best Intentions | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With a screenplay by Academy Award Winner Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander) Bille August (Pelle the Conqueror) masterfully directs this heartwarming love story following the lives of Bergman's parents. Henrik Bergman an impoverished Lutheran pastor falls in love with a wealthy girl Anna. Despite her mother's attempts to discourage the relationship Anna's love grows stronger and the two eventually wed. A compelling look at the hardships extreme faith and rigid discipline of his father and his lifelong commitment to his wife Best Intentions sheds a powerful light onto the themes that have appeared in all of Ingmar Bergman's best movies.

• The Kingdom | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £4.04   |  Saving you £19.21 (691.01%)   |  RRP £21.99

  The Kingdom has been described as "ER meets Twin Peaks", and seldom can the standard and the surreal have met in more perfect accord. The hospital that conceals dark secrets is the premise for this riveting "soap"--seen on Danish TV in 1994--in which science and civilisation are eroded by superstition and instinct. Lars von Trier is not a director who aims to please, and the claustrophobic visuals he draws from handheld cameras and natural lighting anticipate the stripped-down film work of his Dogme 95 movement. Yet there's nothing cerebral about the goings-on here, thanks to the rich variety of characters who people the labyrinthine corridors and functional wards. The Minister's visit and the Haiti jaunt are slapstick humour worthy of the best Python sketches, and Trier is never afraid to mix the prosaic with the profound. There are wonderfully observed performances from Ernst Hugo Jaregard as chequered Swedish surgeon Stig Helmer, and Kirsten Rolffes as common-sense psychic Sigrid Drusse. These are only the first five episodes: having seen them, you'll be awaiting the remainder with impatience. This is persuasive, provocative filmmaking. On the DVD: The Kingdom on disc has audio and visual reproduction that is authentically Trier, with English subtitles and 10 access points per episode. Each part is viewable separately or in sequence, though make sure you don't lose some of the director's amusingly offbeat postscripts. The first disc also features Tranceformer, a frank insight into the mind and movies of Lars von Trier with extracts from his features between 1984 and 95. --Richard Whitehouse

• Help I'm a Fish! | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.96   |  Saving you £1.29 (27.45%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A new animated feature about three children who drink a potion that turns them into sealife!

• Help I'm A Fish | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Help! I'm a Fish is an action-packed, entertaining 78-minute animated feature film, made in Denmark and dubbed for British audiences, starring the vocal talents of distinguished actor Alan Rickman and Monty Python's Terry Jones. The plot is simple but creative. Three children--Fly, Chuck and Stella--are on a clandestine fishing trip, when they stumble upon a mad professor whose potion transforms humans into fish. Stella innocently drinks the liquid, becomes a starfish and is thrown into the ocean. In an attempt to save her, the boys follow suit with Fly changing into a Californian flyfish and Chuck into a jellyfish. The antidote falls into the hands (or fins!) of a pilot fish, Joe, who drinks it and acquires human intelligence, the power of speech, a tyrannical desire for world control and a following of militant crabs. The threesome has 48 hours to retrieve the antidote, or they will remain fish forever. Traditional hand-drawn cartoons are interspersed with more modern computerised animations. The variety of life underwater is beautifully portrayed, adding greatly to the colour and interest of the film. Terry Jones is suitably loopy as Professor MacKrill and Alan Rickman creates a villain to match his baddie roles in Die Hard and Prince of Thieves. There are several key themes including the importance of intelligence, determination and friends and of being kind to animals and respecting the environment. Overall, this is a fast paced video with catchy songs and the occasional scary moment that will excite and delight children aged four and over. --Tracey Hogan

• Everlasting Moments | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £8.94   |  Saving you £9.05 (101.23%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on a true story, in Sweden in the early 1900s in a time of social change and unrest, of war and poverty, Maria, a young working class woman, wins a camera in a lottery and decides to keep it, a decision which alters her whole life.

• Jauja | DVD | (08/06/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A remote military outpost in Patagonia 1882 during the so-called “Conquest of the Desert” a genocidal campaign against the aboriginal population of the region. Acts of savagery abound on all sides. Captain Gunnar Dinesen has come from Denmark with his fifteen year-old daughter to take an engineering job with the argentine army. Being the only female in the area Ingeborg creates quite a stir among the men. She falls in love with a young soldier and one night they run away together. When he wakes up the Captain realises what has happened and decides to venture into enemy territory to find the young couple. “Jauja” is the story of a man’s desperate search for his daughter a solitary quest that takes us to a place beyond time where the past vanishes and the future has no meaning.

• O'Horton | DVD | (10/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Odd Horten has driven the same train route every day for so long that the rest of his life has become a routine of comfortable rituals. But the time has come for the 67-year-old engineer to retire after forty years of dutiful service. His orderly solitary existence is about to give way to a future of perplexing questions. How could Horten get himself in such an awkward situation when he should be celebrating his retirement? Will Horten ever travel by plane? Will he finally sell his prized boat? How does Horten end up in a pair of women's red high-heeled shoes? Will he survive a night time drive with a blindfolded man at the wheel? The only thing for certain is that Horten is first in line for some absurd adventures and quirky encounters. And maybe even a new dog and an old love!

• Inheritance | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £3.98   |  Saving you £18.00 (904.52%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Christoffer heir to a vast industrial fortune has abandoned the family business for an idyllic life with wife Maria a beautiful stage actress. When his father commits suicide Christoffer must return to Denmark to face the life he left behind. What he finds is a business on the brink of bankruptcy a brother-in-law scheming for control and a domineering mother who insists Christoffer take control of the family business. His decision will force him to choose between two colliding wo

• The Kingdom | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Acclaimed director Lars Von Trier delves into the world of the supernatural. At The Kingdom Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital a number of otherworldly and uncanny events begin to occur much to the dismay of its doctors and patients... Contains both the original series and the follow-up.

• Family Favourites - Help I'm A Fish / Titanic / Gulliver's Travels | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Help! I'm A Fish: This delightful animated feature film tells the story of three children Fly Stella and Chuck who go on a fishing trip but get caught up in a thrilling underwater adventure. Stumbling upon Professor MacKrill's mysterious laboratory little Stella accidentally drinks a potion that turns her into a starfish! Fly and Chuck realise that the only way to save her is to turn themselves into fish and search for her in the ocean. However there is one problem - they only have 48 hours to find Stella and get the antidote or they will remain fish forever. Follow Fly Chuck and Stella's enchanting undersea adventures in this beautifully animated feature that is also packed with lots of fun delightful songs and amazing adventures. Gulliver's Travels: A young doctor the sole survivor of a shipwreck is washed ashore in a country inhabited by miniature people. An unusual mix of live action and animation. Based on the novel by Jonathan Swift. Titanic: Southampton - April 1912: the Titanic is ready to sail. Early that morning the first passengers begin to board in amazement at the huge ship. Excited children create mischief while the First Second and Third Class passengers line up at their respective gangplanks. But out of sight of human eyes all the animals that populate the Titanic will tell their own story: Geoffrey the cat a family of mice the ducks and squirrels and the two Dalmatians belonging to the famous singer Molly Harte. Together they embark on the real adventures on board the Titanic.