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• Calvaire | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £8.69   |  Saving you £11.30 (130.04%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A cabaret singer is stranded with an ex-comedian who has been recently dumped by his wife.

• 13 Tzameti | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A clean-faced 20-year-old Sebastien leads an impoverished life with his immigrant family constantly struggling to find the money for their next meal. When hired to repair the roof of the morphine-addicted Godon (Philippe Passon) Sebastien eavesdrops in on a conversation which appears to offer a quick and easy solution to his money troubles. When Godon suddenly falls dead Sebastien decides to follow the instructions meant for the recently deceased addict in a desperate bit to se

• Irreversible | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £11.29   |  Saving you £-4.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Irreversible begins with the closing credits running backwards before the film begins (or ends) with Marcus (Vincent Cassell) and Pierre (Albert Dupontel) being escorted out of a gay s/m club by the cops, Marcus with his arm broken and Pierre in handcuffs. The "story" proceeds to unwind in a series of single-take scenes that unfold Memento-style, with each scene giving more context to what we have seen previously. Each scenario depicts actions, dialogue, incident, behaviour and circumstance that the lead characters might have wished didn't happen, ranging from extreme violence through awkward social situations to mild embarrassment. The central character (and possible dreamer of this whole what-if story) emerges as Alex (Monica Bellucci), who suffers the worst in a very hard-to-watch rape sequence in an underpass. Semi-improvised, the scenes all have attack and power as themes, with later/earlier conversational sequences that suggest life isn't all sexual assaults in the dark, showing equal cinematic imagination with the horrors. Arguably, this is not a film most would subject themselves to twice, but it is something that stays in the mind for days after viewing, sparking far more ideas and emotions than most wallow-in-nastiness pictures. --Kim Newman

• The Dream Life Of Angels | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A story of the friendship between two women with very different personalities. Isa is a free spirit travelling around and getting work where she can. When she gets a temporary job in a factory she makes friends with Marie whose pessimism is diametrically opposed to Isa's general optimism.

• La Sonnambula - Bellini | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A performance of the Bellini opera recorded in 2004 at the Teatro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Daniel Oren conducts.

• Irreversible | DVD | (28/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.