"Actor: Natacha Regnier"

• The Dream Life Of Angels | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A story of the friendship between two women with very different personalities. Isa is a free spirit travelling around and getting work where she can. When she gets a temporary job in a factory she makes friends with Marie whose pessimism is diametrically opposed to Isa's general optimism.

• The Prey | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £9.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (80.08%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Darkly handsome Frank (Albert Dupontel - A Very Long Engagement), jailed for robbing a bank, escapes from prison to track down Maurel (Stphane Debac - The Happening), a former cellmate trying to make him take the fall for a series of murders and who abducts Frank's wife and daughter. Detective Claire Linne (Alice Taglioni - The Valet) leads the chase for the fugitive, who soon becomes public enemy n1.A brutal and no-holds-barred manhunt begins pushing the three protagonists as far as they can go but who will be the hunter and who will be the prey?

• Boxes | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £8.59   |  Saving you £6.40 (42.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Anna a woman in her fifties has just moved into her seaside new house somewhere in Brittany. The place is still cluttered with boxes out of which ghosts appear that start tormenting her. Anna has lived many lives: she has been married three times and has had three daughters from three different men. Quite logically life has not been easy for Anna and for her offspring Fanny Camille and Lilli. All those who counted for her dead or undead have moved with her into her new house and assail her with reproaches regrets and accusations. Will Anna manage to escape them and be able start a new life?

• The Right of the Weakest | DVD | (31/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Unemployed men attempt a heist in The Right Of The Weakest a dry but thought-provoking Belgian drama. Taking time to develop its characters it sees two former steel workers team up with an ex con in an attempt to help Patrick a broke house husband who dreams of buying his wife a new moped. Their struggles are convincing and fittingly amusing but don't come here looking for laughs: the conclusion is sobering stuff. The Right Of The Weakest opens like a po-faced Belgian version of The Full Monty pleading for sympathy for its out-of-work heroes who are desperate for both cash and respect. Clubbing together to play the lottery they soon realise more drastic means are called for and turn to former robber Marc Pirmet (writer/director Lucas Belvaux) for advice.

• Comment J'ai Tue Mon Pere | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cool, subtle psychological drama is a French speciality, and Anne Fontaine's Comment J'ai Tue Mon Pere ("How I Killed My Father") is an ultra-classy specimen of the genre. A study in the way emotional paralysis gets passed on from one generation to the next, it often recalls Philip Larkin's famous lines, "They fuck you up, your mum and dad; they may not mean to, but they do." Jean-Luc, a wealthy gerontologist to the ageing rich of Versailles (that's the town, rather than the ex-royal palace) gets a letter from Africa telling him his father's dead. Since his parent walked out on him and his brother when they were little, he's not too shattered by the news. But next thing he knows, the old boy has shown up and invited himself in for an indefinite stay. And under his blandly disruptive gaze, all the hidden faultlines in Jean-Luc's life--in his marriage, his relationships with his mistress and his failed-actor younger brother--start cracking wide open. Fontaine's film has points in common with Nanni Moretti's masterly The Son's Room, which also showed a professional man's seemingly flawless life crumbling under unforeseen family stresses. But befitting its Italian setting, that was a far warmer and less inhibited set-up. As Jean-Luc, Charles Berling's ice-blue eyes and chiselled good looks seem frozen in a mask of tight repression, and he's superbly matched by veteran actor Michel Bouquet as Maurice, his manipulative father. Both actors, and Stéphane Guillon as Jean-Luc's brother, are impeccably cast and it's easy to believe these three are closely related. The stiffly formal architecture of Versailles makes an ideal backdrop, and there's a quietly ominous score from British composer Jocelyn Pook, who also scored Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Ultimately Fontaine tantalisingly leaves us guessing whether Maurice really does return, or whether he's a ghost conjured! up from his son's guilt-ridden subconscious. On the DVD: How I Killed My Father on disc offers nothing but the theatrical trailer; a missed opportunity given that Fontaine, whose fifth feature this is, is little-known outside France. The transfer is full-screen; visual and sound quality is flawless. --Philip Kemp

• Les Amants Criminels | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Their Idea Of Foreplay Was Murder. In this French thriller from Francois Ozon Alice (Natacha Regnier) and her boyfriend Luc (Jeremie Renier) find themselves in a terrifying trap when they sneak out into the woods to cover up a crime they committed together and then cannot find their way back out. Compared to The Blair Witch Project and to Shallow Grave the tale is creepy and twisting involving rape murder burying dead bodies and perhaps the worst of all: getting lost in the woods.