Exclusive Shameless limited metal tin edition specially design by top British artist graham Humphreys. With his epoch-making Cannibal Holocaust director Ruggero Deodato single-handedly invented the found-footage film genre (later imitated by Blair Witch et al). With The Washing Machine Deodato reboots the Giallo genre stretching its boundaries into this utterly extreme surreal erotic thriller. Originally called Mortal Vortex this long-lost Giallo is now revived in this Exclusive Shameless Limited Metal Tin Edition. By the time Police Inspector Stacev arrived at the eerie Budapest flat of three beguiling sisters to investigate one of the girls' claim to have found a butchered body in their washing machine the corpse had disappeared. Piqued as much by the potential foul play as by the mischievous saucy sisters our detective becomes entangled in their web of sexual obsession and deadly treachery: Each sister spins a different versions of events - including warped stories of cannibalism (what else!) - Whilst seducing the non-too-reluctant officer! Deodato cycles through truly inventive stylish and very hot sex scenes... until an arresting climax! Will it all come out in the wash?
Characteristically breaking with tradition director Robert Bresson presents a realistic unique view of the life and death of Joan of Arc. Using a script based on the actual transcript notes taken during her trial Bresson focuses on the psychological and physical torture that Joan had to endure showing how these techniques were used to break her resolve and cause her to eventually recant her faith. With impeccable historical accuracy Bresson re-creates the story of the peasant gi
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.
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?
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?
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.
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
The creators of the critically acclaimed Propaganda and Happy Dayz videos in association with Oakley present SESSION 1242. Join Oakley's heavy hitters in one of history's most epic and progressive seasons. These athletes have spanned the globe from the Alps of Europe to the flute-filled peaks of Alaska in an effort to leave their own distinctive mark on the sport of skiing. This video is a true integration of styles exploring every facet of skiing from big mountain to back country booters and urban rails. Filmed in Mammoth Whistler BC Montreal Aspen Mt. Hood France Norway Sweden Switzerland Salt Lake East Coast Alaska and Lake Tahoe.
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.
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