"Actor: Sylvie"

• Heat Wave | DVD | (18/06/2018) from £6.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A modern drama inspired by real events, Heat Wave (Apres le sud) is the feature directorial debut of writer/actor/producer/director Jean-Jacques Jauffret. Deftly exploring the divide between the adolescent and adult worlds, it powerfully juxtaposes amusement, carelessness and passion with ideas of authority, consequence and responsibility. A sweltering afternoon in Marseilles. Four lives intersect: those of Stephane and Luigi, two cousins barely out of adolescence, Georges, a retired worker, Amelie, Luigi's girlfriend, and Anne, Amelie's mother. Four mundane lives full of pain, humiliation, fear and fatigue that converge on a series of tragic events.

• The Green Ray | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Delphine's travelling companion cancels two weeks before her holiday so Delphine a Parisian secretary is at a loose end. She doesn't want to travel by herself but has no means boyfriend and seems unable to meet new people. A friend takes her to Cherbourg; after a few days there the weepy and self pitying Delphine goes back to Paris. She tries the Alps but returns the same day. Next it's the beach; once there she chats with an outgoing Swede a party girl and a friendship seem

• The Captive | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £34.19   |  Saving you £-14.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chantal Akerman's La Captive is a deceptively simple story following the fascination of a wealthy young man for his apparently innocent and lovely girlfriend. Only loosely drawn from Proust's La Prisonniere, the Proustian elements are often largely submerged. Yet as a study in obsession it is balanced somewhere between Death in Venice and Vertigo. A chase through the streets of--an apparently timeless but actually contemporary--Paris, this is a picture of inexplicable obsession, moved along by fragments of whispered dialogue and a glimpse of bizarre daily ritual. With much of the story framed within the odd anti-hero Simon's grandiose apartment (which he appropriately shares with an ailing, rarely glimpsed grandmother), the film cleverly avoids suffocating its viewers by giving odd gasps of breath from the cheeky, light encounters between his girlfriend Ariane and the beautiful Andree--friends, or possibly sometime lovers. As a portrait of a relationship, La Captive will keep its viewers absorbed with its elegant tone and its intriguing and inexplicable story; but it might just as easily frustrate with its unresolved twists and turns.--Tricia Tuttle

• Fear And Trembling | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  'Fear And Trembling' follows downtrodden Belgian translator Amelie as she takes a job in a Tokyo firm's head office. Speaking fluent Japanese and enamoured with life in the East she quickly finds herself on the receiving end of cruel office politics sadistic bosses and the complex niceties of Japan's intricate system of manners. As her dream job turns into a living nightmare she's trapped in a world that's part 'The Office' part 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence'....

• Fantastic Planet | DVD | (26/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fantastic Planet tells the story of ""Oms"" human-like creatures kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called ""Traags"". The story takes place on the Traags' planet Ygam where we follow our narrator an Om called Terr from infancy to adulthood. He manages to escapes enslavement from a Traag learning device used to educate the savage Oms - and begins to organise an Om revolt. The imagination invested in the surreal creatures music and sound design and eerie

• Brian Wilson - Smile | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Smile? In 1966, the legendary abandoned Beach Boys' album and "teenage symphony to God" left its visionary, Brian Wilson, with the devil to pay. Disc One of this double DVD set offers David Leaf's glorious documentary "Beautiful Dreamer", interviewing all those involved with the project's development (save, bizarrely, any of the surviving Beach Boys, least of all Smile's most trenchant naysayer Mike Love) and charting Brian Wilson's ascendancy to the cusp of creative immortality and subsequent crash-and-burn to a bedridden, burnt-out recluse. In the South Pole-style "production race" with The Beatles for popular music's brave new frontier (a contest more self-justificatingly important to Wilson than to Lennon/McCartney) it was to be The Beatles who planted the flag and Wilson who perished in the snow; Smile was to be Brian Wilson's nemesis. The albums' eventual completion and re-recording (hats off to Brian Wilson's musical sidekicks The Wondermints) in 2003 was the happiest and unlikeliest conclusion to pop music's most fascinating and infuriating chapter. The entire live performance of Smile in Los Angeles - beautifully filmed on Disc 2 - is a fitting happy ending. The work - especially the waxing and waning chorales of the "Child Is Father Of The Man" section - is a marvel; beautiful, bold, coherent and deft enough to leave the myth - the great "what if?" of 20th Century music history - intact. --Kevin Maidment

• Maliphant/ Guillem: Push | DVD | (16/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The acclaimed French dancer Sylvie Guillem joins choreographer/dancer Russell Maliphant in a performance of their award-winning work, 'Push', at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre.

• Marguerite Et Armand - Sylvie Guillem | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This film by Francoise Ha Van captures the tremendous performance of this ballet by the great ballerina Sylvie Guillem as the heroine and the magnetic Nicolas Le Riche as her young lover. The first part is a studio film of the performance. The second part follows rehearsals and gives a facinating insight into the way that Guillem and Le Riche work together in their rewarding relationship. Guillem and Le Riche give powerful yet tender performances as the passionate lovers.

• L'Heritage | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £6.42   |  Saving you £13.57 (211.37%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three young French friends experience all the peculiarities of rural Giorgian life when they meet an old man and his grandson traveling with an empty coffin.

• I'm Going Home | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of France's greatest screen stars Michel Piccoli plays Gilbert Valence a grand old theatre actor who is given the shocking news that his wife daughter and son-in-law have been tragically killed in a car accident. Some time later and over the worst of his grief Valence busies himself with his daily life in Paris turning down unsuitable roles in low brow television productions and caring for his nine-year old grandson. But when an American filmmaker (John Malkovich) absurdly

• Lourdes | Blu Ray | (12/07/2010) from £13.49   |  Saving you £6.50 (48.18%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lourdes follows Christine who has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she makes a journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees mountains.

• Musketeers Forever | DVD | (01/09/2001) from £8.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The classic Musketeers tale is given a bang up-to-date treatment in this relentlessly exciting action movie.

• And Now Ladies And Gentlemen | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Claude Lelouche (A Man And A Woman) continues to examine the more surreal and often dream-like aspects of love in his latest film And Now Ladies And Gentlemen. Starring Jeremy Irons as a jewel thief who falls in love with a jazz singer after arriving in Morocco in an attempt to evade the police the story blurs reality and fantasy and is set against the exotic and mysterious backdrop of North Africa. The dream-like quality of the film lends an engaging and sensuous atmosphere and Ir

• Evidentia | DVD | (23/09/1996) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-16.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An innovative attempt to reconfigure dance for the digital age, Evidentia is a fantasy on the idea of movement put together by a number of directors and choreographers under the guidance of French ballerina Sylvie Guillem, consisting of five separate films. "Solo" is a study in improvised gesture, virtuosically danced by William Forsythe. "Blue Yellow" dwells on Guillem's poetic dance measures in a yellow studio, looking inward from the confines of a blue room. "Smoke" explores relationships in highly abstract terms, though the emotion-laden narrative unfolded by Guillem and Niklas Ek makes for truly "visceral visuals". "Movement" is even more oblique--indeed, its montage of documentary-cum-movie footage (everything from Paris riots to Buster Keaton) and studio trickery make for a film around rather than about movement. "In the Wind, There is Someone" is, again, a video composition rather than a dance work, the Paris Opera's scenery store providing an intriguing and characterful backdrop. The films are connected by Guillem's often fanciful narration, with rehearsal sequences evoking a Chanel commercial. On the DVD: Evidentia comes in Linear-PCM Stereo with English commentary only, while the 4:3 picture format switches between black and white and colour with vivid immediacy. The booklet contains a background feature in five European languages. --Richard Whitehouse

• My Name Is Hmmm... | DVD | (06/04/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Running away 12-years-old Céline hides in a red truck. She meets Peter a Scottish truck driver in his forties. Along the roads the stops and the encounters Céline experiences her first true moments of childhood with lightness and trust. She wants to see it all to discover it all. Peter becomes the friend of her dreams. He offers this wounded child a chance to finally have a normal life.

• Beyond Silence | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-16.38 (-102.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Caroline Link casts the brilliant Sylvie Testud (Lourdes) as the daughter of deaf parents in this powerful and life affirming Oscar nominated drama. Given a clarinet as a child Lara becomes a passionate and talented musician something her parents cannot begin to understand. As she acts as communicator between her parents and the world her passion for music intensifies and she becomes determined to follow her dreams. Soon her gift threatens to tear the once close family apart and they must learn to separate their differences and expectations to bring their two worlds together again. Beyond Silence deals with the emotional minefield of family relationships with great intelligence and honesty. Boasting phenomenal performances from deaf actors Howie Seago and Emmanuelle Labroit Beyond Silence is inspirational and thoroughly captivating.

• 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...

• Paris Opera Ballet-Seven Ballets | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £13.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (34.45%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This DVD of seven original dances is set to music from acclaimed composers such as Tchaikovsky Sibelius and Grieg choreographed by Norbert Schmucki and Marius Petipa and features the stars of The Paris Opera Ballet the Company known as ""the cradle of classical ballet."" Among the many fine dancers you will discover Sylvie Guillem acclaimed as the most exciting new talent in years; Patrick Dupond the wonder boy of the world dance scene; and Nolla Pontois the epitome of a French ballerina. ""A Triumph..."" - Los Angeles Times Dances: 1. Escamillo - Norbert Schmucki - Spanish Folk 2. Le Petit Pan - Norbert Schmucki - Grieg 3. Bambou (Extract) - Norbert Schmucki - African Folk Music 4. Grande Pas Classique - Marius Petipa - Auber 5. Rixe - Norbert Schmucki - Saint Saens 6. Une Femme - Norbert Schmucki - Sibelius 7. The White Swan (Swan Lake) - Marius Petipa - Tchaikovsky

• Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: Abaton | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Le Petit Bougnat | DVD | (31/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A