"Actor: Juliet Binoche"

• Code Unknown | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £7.83   |  Saving you £12.16 (155.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the prelude to Code Unknown, we watch as a class of deaf children play a very sophisticated game of charades. In response to a blank-faced girl shrinking slowly against a wall, the children guess: is it sadness, isolation, loneliness? We are not told the answer before director Michael Haneke cuts to the extraordinary opening sequence of the film. This nine-minute tracking shot along a busy Parisian boulevard, introduces the film's central characters: Amadou, a first generation French boy of West African descent; Maria, a Romanian illegal immigrant; and Anne (Juliette Binoche), a French actress, trying to make the leap from theatre to film. However, this is the only time we will see these characters together in one place before the film fractures into a series of vignettes, which slowly describe their lives, their cultural isolation and their search for small moments of beauty within this alienation.Michael Haneke has been credited with reinvigorating and refreshing Austrian cinema with expectation-smashing early films such as Funny Games; if his newest pan-European films are anything to go by, he could be set to do the same for Euro cinema in general. Though Code Unknown is very different from Haneke's Benny's Video or Funny Games, like them this film also implicates and involves the viewer in the guilt of the on-screen characters. Its structure of intricately woven story strands is entirely provocative and stirring--politically, aesthetically and emotionally. It's exactly the type of film you want to watch again and again. As with the players of the opening game of charades, we won't be given any easy answers to questions about our collective guilt in the racism and alienation of an undeniably multicultural, multiethnic Europe. --Tricia Tuttle

• Cosmopolis | DVD | (12/11/2012) from £6.06   |  Saving you £16.92 (551.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  New York is in turmoil, the age of capitalism is drawing to a close and Eric Packer, a high finance golden boy is chauffeured across the city in his extravagant limousine to get a haircut. A visit from the President of the United States paralyses Manhattan and as the day goes by, an eruption of wild activity unfolds on the city's streets. Eric watches helplessly as his empire collapses and as his paranoia intensifies during the 24-hour period, he starts to piece together clues that lead him to a most terrifying secret: his imminent assassination.

• Let The Sunshine In | DVD | (18/06/2018) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Isabelle (Juliette Binoche) is a stylish and accomplished artist living in Paris. Divorced and looking to find true love at last, she meets a handsome, kind and intelligent younger man who she thinks might finally be the one.

• Hidden/The Beat That My Heart Skipped/Lemming | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £10.28   |  Saving you £14.97 (165.96%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Set Comprises: 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. The Beat My Heart Skipped (De Battre de Mon Coeur C'est Arrete): In this follow-up to his critical success Read My Lips Jacques Audiard has adapted and updated James Toback's cult 1978 noir Fingers to come up with this memorable character study about a young man torn between a life of crime and classical music. Romain Duris in a standout performance portrays the 28 year-old Tom who seems destined to follow in his father's footsteps as a Parisian property shark working in a sleazy and sometimes brutal milieu. However a chance encounter with his late mother's music agent rekindles a desire for a musical career and hope for a better life. The Beat That My Heart Skipped premiered at Berlin 2005 where it played to enthusiastic audiences and won the Silver Bear for Best Score in addition to securing Best Film Not In The English Language at the 2006 BAFTA ceremony Lemming: Alain (Laurent Lucas) seems to have it all - a beautiful wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) a perfect home and a prestigious new engineering job. But the unexpected sexual attentions of his boss' disconcertingly glacial wife (Charlotte Rampling) and the discovery of a rodent unaccountably stuck in the waste pipe of his kitchen sink spark the beginning of a strange unsettling and sometimes shocking chain of events that disrupts Alain's orderly life and leaves him questioning his own sanity. Featuring a masterfully unnerving performance from Charlotte Rampling the new film from director Dominik Moll (Harry He's Here to Help) is a chillingly suspensful and darkly comic ps

• Damage | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Stephen Fleming a respected Member of Parliament and Junior Minister is comfortable with his life as he approaches his fiftieth birthday. Secure in his enduring marriage he has no premonition of the storm that is about to engulf him when he is drawn to an attractive woman at an embassy cocktail party.

• Alice Et Martin | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £16.18   |  Saving you £1.81 (11.19%)   |  RRP £17.99

  After the mysterious death of his father 20-year-old Martin (Alexis Loret) spends three weeks on the run eventually arriving in Paris at the door of his half-brother Benjamin (Mathieu Amalric The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Quantum of Solace) a struggling actor.Benjamin's friend Alice (Juliette Binoche The English Patient) answers hesitantly inviting Martin into the apartment and into the unconventional life she shares with Benjamin. Alice is nervous and brittle obviously harbouring her own private grief. At first she resents Martin's presence in the apartment however she gradually begins to care for the young man and eventually falls deeply in love with him. Their happiness is short lived when Martin's past comes back to haunt him and Alice begins a quest to find out exactly how Martin's father died.Alice et Martin is a meditation on family romance and the search for contentment from French director Andr'' T''chin'' (Les Voleurs Ma Saison Pr''f''r''e).

• The Michael Haneke Collection | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £22.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (73.95%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Hidden (aka. Cache) (2005): 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. The Time Of The Wolf (2003): Michael Haneke directs this nightmarish vision of a post-apocalyptic world in which society has completely broken down. Isabelle Huppert plays Anne who flees the city with her husband Georges and their two children in the hope of finding safe refuge at the family's country home. But soon after arriving they learn they have made a terrible mistake and must embark on a gruelling odyssey through a country totally devastated by disaster without even the most basic of utilities such as water and electricity. Demonstrating yet again his unique and uncompromising cinematic vision Haneke assembles an all star cast for this typically challenging tense and gripping drama. The Piano Teacher (2001): The Piano Teacher is a powerful and controversial drama from award-winning Austrian film-maker Michael Haneke (Funny Games Code Unknown). Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut a repressed woman in her late thirties who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and lives with her tyrannical mother (Annie Girardot) with whom she has a volatile love-hate relationship. But when one of Erika's students the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer (Benoit Magimel) attempts to seduce her the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire. Code Unknown (2000): Paris. A very busy boulevard. Someone throws a crumpled piece of paper into the outstretched hands of a beggar-woman. This is the bond which for an instant links the trajectories of several very different characters : Anne a young actress is on the threshold of making it in the cinema. Her boyfriend Georges is a war photographer he is rarely in France. His father is a farmer. Georges' younger brother Jean has no interest in taking over the farm. Amadou is a music teacher in an institute for deaf-mute children. His father a taxi driver originates from Africa. His little sister is deaf and it's because of her that Amadou has chosen his profession. Maria comes from Romania and sends home the money she gets from begging. Having been deported she goes back home to spend some time with her family before embarking on another humiliating journey to France. What do they have in common these characters and those whose path they cross?

• The English Patient | DVD | (08/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Winner of nine Academy Awards and almost every critic's heart, The English Patient (based on Michael Ondaatje's prizewinning novel of love and loss during World War II) is one of the most acclaimed films of modern times. Hana, a nurse (Juliette Binoche), tends to an archaeologist (Ralph Fiennes) who has been burnt to a crisp in a plane crash. As their relationship intensifies, he flashes back to his overwhelming passion for a married woman (Kristin Scott Thomas). Meanwhile, Hana begins a new romance with a man who defuses bombs (Naveen Andrews) and Willem Dafoe almost steals the show as the thumbless thief Caravaggio. The intricately layered flashback narrative, sounding the depths of the lovers' hearts, improves with repeated viewings. --Geoff Riley

• Clouds of Sils Maria Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (27/07/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Clouds of Sils Maria follows the story of Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche), an actor who is asked to perform in a new production of a play that made her famous twenty years prior. However, this time she will be playing the role of a different, older character who is obsessed with a beautiful young woman (Chloë Grace Moretez). Departing to the Swiss Alps with her loyal personal assistant (Kristen Stewart), Maria begins to see life reflecting art and, like her character, cannot help but be drawn into an inexorable web of doubt and fear. Expertly staged by Olivier Assayas (Carlos, Something in the Air, Summer Hours), Clouds of Sils Maria is a dazzlingly performed meditation on power, desire, loyalty and the passing of time.

• Camille Claudel 1915 | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £7.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Confined to a remote asylum near Avignon by her family the sculptor Camille Claudels claims of persecution are seen as proof of her madness. She rails impotently against her imprisonment the poisoning of her food her abandonment by her family and (most importantly) the theft of her art by her one-time lover Rodin. Awaiting a visit from her sanctimonious brother Paul (Jean-Luc Vincent) whose self-serving love of God convinces him that his sister is somehow possessed. Camille veers between moments of awful lucidity and entirely understandable paranoia her psychological anguish made flesh by Juliette Binoche.

• Leos Carax Collection - 3 Disc Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £26.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (60.02%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Box set containing three classics from acclaimed director Leos Carax - The Night is Young Boy Meets Girl and Holy Motors.

• Godzilla | Blu Ray | (02/09/2019) from £20.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This spectacular adventure pits Godzilla, the world's most famous monster, against malevolent creatures that, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence. Special features: Discover explosive new evidence not contained in the film that unravels the massive cover-up to keep Godzilla's existence a secret in Operation: Lucky Dragon Monarch: The M.U.T.O File The Godzilla Revelation. Plus, get the lowdown on this legendary monster in Godzilla: Force of Nature. And More

• Let The Sunshine In | Blu Ray | (18/06/2018) from £12.66   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Isabelle, a Parisian artist, a divorced mother, is looking for love, true love at last.

• The Horseman On The Roof | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Their only chance for survival was each other. From the director of Cyrano de Bergerac comes the most expensive French production of its time The Horseman on the Roof. Available on DVD for the first time. In the midst of the 19th century Italian soldier Angelo has escaped his Austrian enemies and fled to rural France where an outbreak of cholera sweeps the land. Aided by a beautiful noblewoman he vows to protect her as she searches for her missing husband. As

• Cosmopolis | Blu Ray | (12/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  New York is in turmoil, the age of capitalism is drawing to a close and Eric Packer, a high finance golden boy is chauffeured across the city in his extravagant limousine to get a haircut. A visit from the President of the United States paralyses Manhattan and as the day goes by, an eruption of wild activity unfolds on the city's streets. Eric watches helplessly as his empire collapses and as his paranoia intensifies during the 24-hour period, he starts to piece together clues that lead him to a most terrifying secret: his imminent assassination.

• Abbas Kiarostami Collection | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over 40 films, shorts and documentaries. This DVD collection includes the critically acclaimed Certified Copy as well as these other outstanding features. TenTaste of CherryThe Wind Will Carry UsABC Africa

• Dan in Real Life | Blu Ray | (06/10/2008) from £12.29   |  Saving you £1.69 (18.17%)   |  RRP £10.99

  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!

• La Veuve De Saint-Pierre | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The "widow" referred to in the title of La Veuve de Saint-Pierre isn't a woman, but a mechanism--to be exact, the guillotine, (though the title does take on a second meaning in the tragic final moments of the film). We're on the island of Saint-Pierre, a tiny forgotten French colony off the coast of Newfoundland, midway through the 19th century. A senseless drunken murder is committed and the killer is condemned to death, but zut alors!, there's no guillotine on the island. So one must be requested from the slow, bureaucratic authorities in Paris and, once approved, laboriously shipped over. Meanwhile the killer, a simple-minded giant of a man, is placed in the custody of the Captain, whose beautiful wife starts taking an interest in the prisoner. Director Patrice Leconte has always had an acute feel for place and period--he directed the mordantly witty costume drama Ridicule--and La Veuve vividly captures the sense of remoteness and resentful isolation of this blizzard-swept community. The brooding landscape, all slate-blues and greys, is beautifully framed by Eduardo Serra's camera, and Leconte draws affecting performances from his central trio of actors: Daniel Auteuil, with his intriguingly lopsided face, as the Captain; Juliette Binoche, radiantly vulnerable as his wife; and, in an unexpected but remarkably successful bit of casting, Serbian film director Emir Kusturica as the condemned man. La Veuve de Saint-Pierre may be a touch over-solemn at times, and its message is hardly unexpected; but it's an intelligent, engrossing and richly atmospheric piece of filmmaking. --Philip Kemp

• Certified Copy | DVD | (17/01/2011) from £8.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (78.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From acclaimed director Abbis Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry The Wind Will Carry Us) comes the story of a couple's apparent chance meeting in beautiful Tusccany. He (William Shimell) is a British author in town to talk about his new book. She (Juliette Binoche) is a French gallery owner in search of originality. Together they tour the local galleries cafes and museums and discover that nothing is quite what it seems and truth like art is always open to interpretation. A captivating film Certified Copy marries post-modern reality games with mature romantic comedy in a single playful and provocative package.

• Rendez-Vous | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £8.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (128.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This stylish erotic drama sees Binoche give an electrifying performance in her first major film role starring alongside the prolific French leading man Lambert Wilson and the enigmatic Jean-Louis Trintignant. Available on DVD for the first time. Free-spirited actress Nina (Binoche) has moved to Paris and following a string of sexual encounters meets timid estate-agent Paulot. He is smitten but she is more interested in his flatmate Quentin (Wilson) an aggressive emotionally distur