"Director: Alan Rickman"

• A Little Chaos | DVD | (24/08/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A female landscape-gardener is awarded the esteemed assignment to construct the grand gardens at Versailles a gilt-edged position which thrusts her to the very centre of the court of King Louis XIV. Can she overcome the challenges of this new and complex world and the ghosts of her own past tragedy to secure a future with the man she loves?

• Winter Guest | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £4.43   |  Saving you £11.56 (260.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set upon the shores of a picturesque Scottish seaside town in the icy depths of winter The Winter Guest is moving funny and tender story about life love and the need to feel wanted. Oscar winner Emma Thompson and her real life mother Phyllida Law bring extraordinary emotional depth to this sometimes comic often poignant story of four sets of odd couples each representing a different generation from childhood to old age. Frances (Emma Thompson) is trying to overcome the recent loss of her husband: while Elspeth her Mother (Phyllida Law) is attempting to rekindle the relationship between herself and her daughter. As their lives intertwine with those of two young boys (playing truant) a teenage couple (on the brink of sexual awakening) and two elderly ladies (who spend their time choosing which funeral to attend) their affections for each other begin to thaw while all around them is cold frosty and snow covered...

• The Winter Guest | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £9.73   |  Saving you £3.25 (48.22%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set during the brief hours of light one day in February when the sea has frozen, The Winter Guest is about how four pairs of people at different stages of life attempt to fill the emptiness in their hearts. While that sounds bleak--and the setting in a small town on the East coast of Scotland is certainly stark--there is considerable human warmth in Alan Rickman's directorial debut. Without a conventional story, Rickman simply cuts between four strands, spending most of the time with the difficult relationship between a mother and daughter, played by real-life parent and offspring Phyllida Law and Emma Thomson. Strong dialogue, with a dash of Samuel's Beckett's existential squabbling angst and outstanding performances make this both funny and touching. Meanwhile Thomson's teenage son begins a tentative romance with the new girl in town, two younger boys bunk off school to the icy beach and a pair of elderly ladies attends a funeral. Ultimately the ice-locked sea and Michael Kamen's crystalline piano score become additional characters, the film offering a pseudo-mysticism akin to Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) while echoing with the spare dramas of Krzysztof Kieslowski; especially Three Colours: White (1994). A beautiful drama that demands attention throughout. --Gary S Dalkin

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  A female landscape-gardener is awarded the esteemed assignment to construct the grand gardens at Versailles a gilt-edged position which thrusts her to the very centre of the court of King Louis XIV. Can she overcome the challenges of this new and complex world and the ghosts of her own past tragedy to secure a future with the man she loves?