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• Nathalie | DVD | (31/01/2005) from £8.08   |  Saving you £11.91 (147.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Nathalie' is a stylish and provocative thriller set against the backdrop of the world's most seductive city which looks at the nature of relationships and the subtle line that separates love and desire. Catherine (Ardent) thinks that her husband (Depardieu) is having an affair. She decides to hire a prostitute named Nathalie (Beart) to seduce her husband then report back with all the sordid details. However can Nathalie be trusted? Is Catherine's husband really being unfaithful

• Before Sunset | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  In a sequel to his 1995 film "Before Sunrise," director Richard Linklater re-unites lovers Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy on the streets of Paris for more philosophizing about love and life.

• Merci pour le Chocolat | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Claude Chabrol's nervy and nasty little 2001 thriller Merci Pour le Chocolat is based on Charlotte Armstrong's novel The Chocolate Cobweb. In Chabrol's hands it becomes a vehicle of considerable power for the unsettling, disturbed qualities of actress Isabelle Huppert, who has been one of his most important muses over the years (their other collaborations include La Cérémonie and Rien ne va Plus). Huppert plays Mika, the owner of a Swiss chocolate factory, now married to a world-class concert pianist (Jacques Dutronc) and with a stepson who is obsessive about making the family's drinking chocolate every day. As the clues unravel, it soon becomes clear that Mika is damaged goods. When Dutronc acquires a piano student (Anna Mougalis) in curious circumstances, Mika is forced to escalate her secret agenda. Huppert is fascinating throughout and the film is sinewy and, for the most part, rather clever, evoking shades of Hitchcock and Clouzot. Liszt's Les Funérailles is the ominous leitmotif, worked on by Dutronc and his protégé, and the Lausanne setting creates an other-worldliness which seems almost sterile. Only at the end does the picture dwindle into an almost Strindbergian inertia as Mika's motivation seems to evaporate in a rather unsatisfactory way. Until then it is spellbinding. --Piers Ford

• Close To Leo | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From celebrated auteur Christophe Honor (Les Chansons D'Amour and Dans Paris) comes an acclaimed tale about family and brotherly understanding, adapted from one of his own novels. Leo is the eldest of four brothers, of whom Marcel, age 10, is the youngest. With their young parents, they are a happy and close-knit family. One evening, Marcel overhears the family discussing something about Leo that they wish to keep a secret from him. Although he yearns to know the truth, nobody can bring themselves to speak openly about it. Eventually, Leo takes his younger brother to Paris so that he can visit an old boyfriend and explain both himself and his situation to Marcel, who in turn shows an understanding and fraternal love that transcends the expectations his family had of him.Heart-breakingly honest and beautifully uplifting, Close To Leo is a definitive chapter in French Queer Cinema that has enraptured audiences and critics alike.

• Close To Leo | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Leo lives in Brittany with his mum and dad and his three younger brothers. When Leo reveals that he is HIV positive his family supports him. It is decided that the youngest brother Marcel is too little to understand and the information is kept from him causing further tensions within the family...