"Actor: Juliet Binoche"

• Three Colours Trilogy | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £19.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (100.05%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Even though one can view each segment of Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colours trilogy on its own, it seems absurd to do so; why buy the trousers instead of the entire suit? Created by Kieslowski and his writing partner Krzysztof Piesiewicz for France's bicentennial, the titles--and the themes of the films--come from the three colours of the French flag representing liberty, equality and fraternity. Blue examines liberation through the eyes of a woman (Juliette Binoche) who loses her husband and son in an auto accident, and solemnly starts anew. White is an ironic comedy about a befuddled Polish husband (Zbigniew Zamachowski) who takes an odd path of revenge against his ex-wife (Julie Delpy). A Swiss model (Irène Jacob) strikes up a friendship with a retired judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who eavesdrops on his neighbours in Red. The trilogy is a snapshot of European life at a time of reconstruction after the Cold War, reflected through Kieslowski's moralist view of human nature and illumined by each title's palate colour. On the DVD: The DVD set has numerous extras spread throughout the three discs; the end result is a superior collection. Each disc has a short retrospective, culled together from new interviews with Kieslowski's crew, plus film critic Geoff Andrew, biographer Annette Insdorf (who also does the commentaries), and fellow Polish director Ageniska Holland. Producer Marin Karmitz also reminisces about the experience. There's an exceptional effort to show the magic of Kieslowski (who died two years after the trilogy) through a discussion of his various career phases, interviews with the three lead actresses, four student films, and archival materials including simple--and wonderful--glimpses of the director at work. Excellent insight is also provided by Dominique Rabourdin's filmed "cinema lessons" with Kieslowski. Without viewing any of his other films, this set illustrates the uniqueness of Kieslowski. --Doug Thomas

• Unbearable Lightness Of Being - 2 Disc Special Edition | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, the happily irresponsible Czech lover of Milan Kundera's novel, which is set in Prague just before and during the Soviet invasion in 1968. Lena Olin and Juliette Binoche are the two vastly different women who occupy his attention and to some extent represent different sides of his values and personality. In any case, the character's decision to flee Russian tanks with one of them--and then return--has profound consequences on his life. Directed by Philip Kaufman, this rich, erotic, fascinating character study with allegorical overtones is a touchstone for many filmgoers. Several key sequences--such as Olin wearing a bowler hat and writhing most attractively--linger in the memory, while Kaufman's assured sense of the story inspires superb performances all around. --Tom Keogh

• Hidden (cache) | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A married couple are terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.

• The Night is Young | Blu Ray | (23/06/2014) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Night Is Young - Petty thief and street hustler Alex (Denis Lavant) plots to steal a new miracle cure for an AIDS-like virus on behalf of his gangster friend Marc (Michel Piccoli). But this attracts the notice of a mysterious American woman who also wants the serum. One of the most notable films of the 80s this dazzlingly inventive mix of off-beat romance and sci-fi thriller cemented Carax's reputation as one of the most exciting directors in the world.

• Elles | DVD | (20/08/2012) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Anne (Juliette Binoche) is a journalist who, during her investigation into prostitution, encounters two young girls who use their bodies as a way to make easy money. Fascinated by them, she is drawn into their world, which stands in marked contrast to her own bourgeois life. Juliette Binoche gives a characteristically committed performance in Malgorzata Szunowska's frank drama, whose camera never shies away from the details of the girl's work, always capturing Anne's response to it.

• The 33 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.75   |  Saving you £13.24 (196.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the miraculous event that gripped the world - and filmed with the cooperation of the real-life miners, their families and their rescuers - 'The 33' shows the never-before-seen personal journeys which became nothing less than a global phenomenon.

• Hidden | Blu Ray | (27/10/2008) from £10.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (127.39%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Writer/director Michael Haneke delivers a masterpiece of unsettlement with Hidden (Cache). Life seems perfect for Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche) a bourgeois Parisian couple who live in a comfortable home with their adolescent son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky). But when an anonymous videotape turns up on their doorstep showing their house under surveillance from across the street their calm life begins to spiral out of control. Subsequent videotapes arrive accompanied by mysterious drawings and gradually Georges becomes convinced that he's being tormented by a figure from his past. But when he confronts him the man assures Georges he is innocent. A growing sense of guilt begins to rise in Georges as he recalls his less-than-angelic childhood yet for some reason he's unable to be completely honest with Anne. Soon their happy home is an emotional battleground leading to a climax that is breathtaking in its ferocity and ambiguousness. Though Haneke's film works first and foremost as an insidious thriller it is also a powerful commentary on the urban paranoia and racism that continue to permeate modern society. Without using a score and keeping his camera detached and static Haneke nonetheless establishes a nearly unbearable level of tension. Not for the squeamish Hidden remains a work of menacing brilliance and was the winner of the Best Director award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

• Three Colours Blue | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first instalment of the late Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, the three colours of the French flag. Blue is the most sombre of the three, a movie dominated by feelings of grief. As the film begins, a car accident claims the life of a well-known composer. His wife, played by Juliette Binoche (Oscar winner for The English Patient), does not so much put the pieces of her life back together as start an entirely new existence. She moves to Paris, where she dissolves into a wordless life virtually without other people. Kieslowski attaches an almost subconscious significance to the colour blue but primarily he focuses on Binoche's luminous face and the way her subtle shifts in emotion flicker and disappear. The picture may be more enigmatic than the follow-ups White and Red but Binoche's quiet, heartbreaking presence becomes spellbinding; her performance won the best actress prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1993. --Robert Horton

• Godzilla | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £6.99   |  Saving you £23.00 (329.04%)   |  RRP £29.99

  An epic rebirth to Toho's iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure pits the world's most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.

• Dan In Real Life | DVD | (09/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Dan is a local newspaper advice columnist and a down-on-his-luck single parent. At a local bookstore, Dan discovers the girl of his dreams - only to later find out at a family reunion that the girl is on the arm of his brother!

• Breaking And Entering | DVD | (01/07/2007) from £3.92   |  Saving you £12.07 (307.91%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A story about theft, both criminal and emotional, "Breaking and Entering" follows a disparate group of Londoners and new arrivals.

• Shirin | Blu Ray | (26/10/2009) from £25.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Widely regarded as one of the most important ambitious and rewarding filmmakers at work today Kiarostami continues to explore the potential of cinema stimulating and challenging the viewer's imagination to an extraordinary degree. His new film Shirin a retelling of a classic Persian love story offers a feast for the imagination of a wholly unexpected kind.

• The Night is Young | DVD | (23/06/2014) from £8.29   |  Saving you £7.70 (48.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Night Is Young - Petty thief and street hustler Alex (Denis Lavant) plots to steal a new miracle cure for an AIDS-like virus on behalf of his gangster friend Marc (Michel Piccoli). But this attracts the notice of a mysterious American woman who also wants the serum. One of the most notable films of the 80s this dazzlingly inventive mix of off-beat romance and sci-fi thriller cemented Carax's reputation as one of the most exciting directors in the world.

• Clouds of Sils Maria | DVD | (27/07/2015) from £6.03   |  Saving you £9.96 (165.17%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A film star comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.

• The Films of Michael Haneke (10 discs) | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £74.99

  This deluxe box set features ten of Haneke's masterpieces - now including the Palme d'Or-winning 'The White Ribbon' - and follows the sell-out success of 2009's 'Essential Michael Haneke' collection.71 Fragments of a Chronology of ChanceBenny's VideoThe CastleCode UnknownFunny GamesHiddenThe Piano TeacherThe Seventh ContinentTime of the WolfThe White Ribbon

• Flight of the Red Balloon/The Red Balloon (2 discs) | DVD | (01/01/2010) from £12.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Directed by the internationally acclaimed award-winning Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao Hsien (Café Lumière City of Sadness) this exquisite film inspired by Albert Lamorisse's classic 1953 film The Red Balloon (described by François Truffaut as 'one of the most beautiful colour films ever made') finds its own place within a continuing tradition of great French cinema. A young boy Simon (Simon Iteanu) must deal with the increasing fragility of his mother the loving yet preoccupied puppeteer Suzanne played by Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche (The English Patient Dan in Real Life). Overwhelmed by the demands of her chaotic existence Suzanne hires Song (Song Fan) a Taiwanese film student to help care for Simon. With Song a unique extended family is formed utterly interdependent yet lost in their separate thoughts and dreams; all this is mirrored by a delicate shiny red balloon that hovers above the Paris streets. Special Features: 'The Red Balloon' - Albert Lamorisse's classic short Original theatrical trailer

• The Truth | Blu Ray | (18/05/2020) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fabienne is a star a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.

• Damage | DVD | (13/07/2015) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Summer Hours | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £8.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (135.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three estranged siblings must each come to terms with the death of their mother in this touching drama by Olivier Assayas.

• A Thousand Times Good Night | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £8.08   |  Saving you £6.91 (85.52%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A Thousand Times Good Night tells the moving story of leading wartime photojournalist Rebecca (Binoche) who is torn between a passion for her dangerous job and her loving but worried family. This affecting film which won the Special Grand Prix of the Jury at the Montreal Film Festival 2013 resonates with Poppe whose own experiences from his years as a wartime photographer for Reuters and other media are reflected in the film. Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul she gets to near and gets badly hurt. Back home another bomb drops. Her husband and daughters can no longer bear the thought of her dying while at work. She is given an ultimatum: Her work or her family life. The choice seems obvious. Rebecca swears to Marcus that she will never go to a war zone again. Yet the conviction that her photos can make a difference keeps pulling at her resolve making it difficult for her to live a normal life as a mother and wife. Then comes an offer to photograph a refugee camp in Kenya a place allegedly so safe that daughter Steph is allowed to join her mother...