"Actor: Lluis Serrat"

• Story of My Death (Història de la meva mort) | DVD | (29/06/2015) from £10.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Award-winning Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra has established himself as one of the most original and iconoclastic voices in contemporary cinema. His deliciously eccentric film The Story of My Death (winner of the prestigious Golden Leopard prize at the 2013 Locarno Film Festival) imagines a meeting between the ageing Casanova and Count Dracula to chart the collision between the eighteenth century of Enlightenment rationalism and libertine sensuality and a nineteenth century founded upon Romanticism obscurantism and violence.

• Honour Of The Knights | DVD | (26/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  There are no windmills only wind-and trees and grass and sunlight extinguishing the dawn-in writer-director Albert Serra's extraordinary minimalist/naturalist take on the Don Quixote story. Honour Of The Knights takes inspiration not just from Cervantes but also from an exhaustive litany of other literary and cinematic sources. It is most affecting however as a spare yet soulful study of two lone figures against an unspoiled landscape-the last refuge perhaps from a world that no longer resembles a bygone golden age of peace and prosperity. There is a whistful air to the film as the frail weather-beaten Quixote (Llu''-s Carb'') trudges forth in the company of the loyal Sancho (Llu''-s Serrat) pausing periodically to rest bask in a gentle stream or impart some terse morsel of wisdom.