"Actor: Lucia Bosé"

• La Signora Senza Camelie | Blu Ray | (21/03/2011) from £26.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The second feature film by cinema master Michelangelo Antonioni La signora senza camelie [The Lady Without Camelias] expanded the expressive palette of contemporary Italian movies demonstrating that a personal vision could take an explicitly poetic tack; that seriousness = neo-realism was perhaps already turning into something of a truism; and that Antonioni would answer to no-one but himself. It's the story of a shopclerk named Clara (played by the captivating Lucia Bos also of Antonioni's brilliant debut feature Cronaca di un amore) who finds a chance casting in a small movie role develop into a fullblown career as screen-siren. Tension erupts when her husband can no longer tolerate watching her frivolous cinema escapades and pushes her into a serious artistic production of the life of Joan of Arc... whereupon she is castigated by the critical establishment. A riveting 'behind-the-scenes' show-business drama La signora senza camelie explores themes that would haunt its director from L'avventura through La notte and The Passenger - the tenuous hold of an individual on her identity and the dangers inherent to performance in life and on-screen.

• The Story Of A Love Affair | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £6.84   |  Saving you £6.15 (89.91%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Groundlessly jealous of his wife's romantic past Enrico Fontana hires a private detective to finally determine whether she is faithful or not. Ironically his suspicious attitude unconsciously brings his wife Paola (Lucia Bose) together with Guido (Massimo Girotti) a man with whom she had once been in love. Paola and Guido's past was clouded in tragedy. Guido had been involved with Paola's close female friend's death. Their passion rekindled once again the lovers even get to the point where they are thinking about murdering Enrico....