"Director: Andre Techine"

• Alice Et Martin | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £16.18   |  Saving you £1.81 (11.19%)   |  RRP £17.99

  After the mysterious death of his father 20-year-old Martin (Alexis Loret) spends three weeks on the run eventually arriving in Paris at the door of his half-brother Benjamin (Mathieu Amalric The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Quantum of Solace) a struggling actor.Benjamin's friend Alice (Juliette Binoche The English Patient) answers hesitantly inviting Martin into the apartment and into the unconventional life she shares with Benjamin. Alice is nervous and brittle obviously harbouring her own private grief. At first she resents Martin's presence in the apartment however she gradually begins to care for the young man and eventually falls deeply in love with him. Their happiness is short lived when Martin's past comes back to haunt him and Alice begins a quest to find out exactly how Martin's father died.Alice et Martin is a meditation on family romance and the search for contentment from French director Andr'' T''chin'' (Les Voleurs Ma Saison Pr''f''r''e).

• Strayed | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in 1940 at the beginning of Germany's occupation of France the recently widowed Odile (Emmanuelle Beart) is a young beautiful mother fleeing Paris with her two children 13-year-old Philippe (Leprince-Ringuet) and 7-year-old Cathy (Clemence Meyer). When German planes bomb the road filled with refugees Odile's car is destroyed and she flees into the woods with her children. They encounter Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel) a 17 year-old illiterate delinquent whose survival skills and charm

• The Witnesses | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £7.25   |  Saving you £12.74 (63.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This moving and powerful from the acclaimed director of 'Alice and Martin' and 'Strayed' follows the lives of a group of friends and lovers in 1980s France. Handsome young Manu (Johan Liberau) arrives in Paris where he shares a cheap hotel room with his sister (Julie Depardieu). He soon strikes up a platonic friendship with fifty something Adrien (Michel Blanc) who introduces Manu to his friends Sarah (Emmanuelle B''art) and her partner Mehdi (Sami Bouajila). Unexpectedly sparks fly between Manu and Mehdi and the two embark upon a secret and passionate affair that will ultimately change everybody's lives. Brilliantly evoking the period and featuring some exceptional performances Andr'' T''chin'''s remarkable film confirms his place as one of contemporary French cinema's finest directors.

• French Collection Vol.4 - Emmanuelle Beart | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  The French Collection: Vol.4 - Emmanuel Beart

• Girl On The Train | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £6.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (59.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One elaborate lie from a young girl looking for work soon spirals out of control and becomes the biggest political story of the day in this thought-provoking thriller from director Andre Techine.

• Alice Et Martin | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Staring a radiant Juliette Binoche and first-time actor Alexis Loret, Alice et Martin portrays a love affair that blossoms between the two protagonists and the effects on the relationship of a notable age gap and Martin's tortured past. André Téchiné has delivered some of the most delicate character pieces in recent French cinema, most notably the coming-of-age drama Wild Reeds. However, Alice et Martin, authored with help from Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep), never quite comes together as smoothly as his best work; it ricochets from lovely romantic flirtations to tortured psychodrama to family melodrama while Téchiné's oblique, reserved direction observes without penetrating the heart of the drama. Loret's Martin is more enigma than character, but Mathieu Amalric portral of Martin's long lost brother shows the same shaggy, understated charm he displayed in Late August, Early September and Binoche brings a sensitivity and toughness to the emotionally scuffed Alice. Her radiant presence gives the film its moments of emotional frisson a discreet, subtle power. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com