"Actor: Laura Morante"

• Private Fears In Public Places | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A handful of characters struggle to hold on to relationships with the people they care for in this collaboration between playwright Alan Ayckbourn and filmmaker Alain Resnais.

• Moliere | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £2.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (568.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Laurent Tirard's sumptuous and seductive comedy provides a fictionalised account of the mysterious 'lost months' in the celebrated playwright's life.

• The Son's Room | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £9.27   |  Saving you £13.71 (218.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Son's Room, which picked up the 2001 Palme d'Or at Cannes, marks a departure for writer-director Nanni Moretti. The films that made his name outside Italy, Dear Diary and Aprile, were both highly personal and politicised semi-documentaries, and a strong political sense underlies the half-dozen or so features he made before them. By contrast, The Son's Room is a subtle, intense study of a family cracking apart under the impact of grief, with no overt political element. For all that, it's the most moving film that Moretti's yet made. "It captured me" he says "more than any other [story] I'd worked on previously. It's a film in which the director shares his emotions with the audience, without imposing his own feelings." As usual, the director plays his own lead character. Here he's Giovanni, a successful psychiatrist in a provincial Italian city (Ancona on the Adriatic coast). He has a beautiful wife, happy in her own career, and two bright, good-looking teenage children, a son and a daughter. Then, out of nowhere, tragedy strikes and in its aftermath, the fissures begin to show in the idyllic façade. Giovanni in particular reveals the insecurities and neuroses lurking behind his tolerant, easy-going demeanour. Moretti homes in on his characters with clear-eyed compassion, never milking the tragedy for facile sentiment but sparing us nothing of the gut-wrenching grief they feel. Nor does he succumb to the temptation of a feel-good happy ending: we are left with a hint of hope for the future, but no more. This is intelligent, mature filmmaking that respects its audience. On the DVD: The Son's Room comes to disc with just the trailer--and the flabby US trailer at that. A commentary from Moretti would have been more than welcome. Still, the transfer, in the original 1.66:1 ratio, is impeccable, with Dolby Digital 2.0 sound to match. --Philip Kemp

• The Dancer Upstairs | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £4.74   |  Saving you £15.25 (321.73%)   |  RRP £19.99

  John Malkovich directs the story of a police detective in a South American country who is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.

• Hotel | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £12.93   |  Saving you £-2.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Genius filmmaker Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas Timecode) brings together a dazzling all-star cast in this story of dark sexual intrigue where no one is quite what they seem and the staff are more in control than the guests. Figgis brings a fresh approach to film-making. Add this to the surplus of bizarre sexual activity and horrific cannibalistic images and Hotel becomes one place you will not want to check into alone...

• Orchestra Seats | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £8.39   |  Saving you £9.60 (114.42%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next to a theater. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and begin to have her own dreams of fame...

• The Son's Room | Blu Ray | (23/11/2020) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Nanni Moretti ('Dear Diary') writes, directs and stars in this story of family grief and bereavement. Psychiatrist Giovanni (Moretti) lives happily with his family in a small Italian coastal town. One Sunday he is due to spend time with his son Andrea (Giuseppe Sanfelice), when he receives an anguished call from Oscar, one of his patients, and feels he must go and see him instead; however later that afternoon Andrea accidentally drowns in a diving accident. Over the following weeks, Giovanni, his wife Paola (Laura Morante), and daughter Irene (Jasmine Trinca), remain shell-shocked with grief; with Giovanni suspending his practice, and relations between himself and Paola becoming increasingly difficult. When a letter then arrives from a girl who Andrea had met the previous summer, who none of the family knew anything about, they all become curious to learn more about this person who meant so much to their departed son and brother. Extras: Interview with Nanni Moretti and Laura Morante - Cannes Film Festival 2001

• Empire Of The Wolves | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £15.28   |  Saving you £7.70 (62.65%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If you can't remember your past... you can't save your future. Anna Heymes (Arly Jover) the wife of a senior government official is experiencing the loss of memory and terrifying hallucinations. In the Turkish neighborhood of Paris two police officers Nerteaux (Jocelyn Quivrin) and Schiffer (Reno) are trying to solve the mystery of the sadistic murders of three women all clandestine Turkish laborers. While the upright Nerteaux is determined to stop the killings Schiffer

• Remember Me | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £9.99   |  Saving you £7.99 (114.14%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Some loves are never forgotten. Gabrielle Muccino's bittersweet drama delves into the lives and loves of a modern Italian family whose individual aspirations pull at the seams of their increasingly fragile bonds. As their children come of age and begin to follow their own dreams Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) finds himself torn between his marriage to Giulia (Laura Morante) and a passionate affair with Alessia (Monica Bellucci) while Guilia must face her own buried desires.

• Nero | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The decline of an empire A dramatisation of the life and times of the infamous Roman Emperor Nero who allegedly set fire to Rome when he committed suicide.

• A Farewell To Fools | DVD | (18/08/2014) from £18.16   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Once upon a time, during WWII somewhere in Nazi occupied Romania, a night of comic misadventures ensues when a boy discovers a dead soldier. The German authorities demand that the perpetrator must be identified or the town leaders will be shot the following morning. In their desperation, led by Father Johanis (Harvey Keitel), their salvation seems to lie in convincing the town fool, Ipu (G rard Depardieu), to agree to confess, and save them all with his sacrifice. The comedy and darker sid.

• Hotel | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Irene is a shy reserved girl who starts working in an isolated mountain hotel. Her employers seem obsessed with cleanliness but she's not fazed by that. But she soon discovers that her predecessor has mysteriously disappeared and whenever she tries talking about it to the other employees or even the police she's met with indifference. And what are the connections to the cave nearby with its connections to witchcraft?