"Director: Bruno Dumont"

• Slack Bay | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £8.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast in Northern France. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicentre of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide. There lives a small community of fishermen and other oyster farmers. Among them evolves a curious family, the Brufort, renowned ferrymen of the Slack Bay, lead by the father nicknamed The Eternal , who rules as best as he can on his prankster bunch of sons, especially the impetuous 18 years-old Ma Loute. Towering high above the bay stands the van Peteghems mansion. Every summer, this bourgeois family all degenerate and decadent from inbreeding stagnates in the villa, not without mingling during their leisure hours of walking, sailing or bathing, with the ordinary local people, Ma Loute and the other Bruforts. Over the course of five days, as starts a peculiar love story between Ma Loute and the young and mischievous Billie van Peteghem, confusion and mystification will descend on both families, shaking their convictions, foundations and way of life. After P'tit Quinquin, the latest film by Bruno Dumont finds once again its inspiration in slapstick comedy, at turns bleak and funny, with the most amazing cast of French actors whose performances take the film to another level.

• Hadewijch | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £7.55   |  Saving you £8.44 (52.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Cline, a theology student, takes the name of Hadewijch, a 13th century mystic from Brabant, as her name for her novitiate. But shocked by the blind, ecstatic faith of Hadewijch, the mother superior tells her she must leave the convent and find her vocation in the world.Hadewijch once again becomes Cline, 20, the daughter of a French minister. She meets Yassine, a North African from the banlieues, who introduces her to his brother Nassir, a committed Muslim and religious instructor. Her passionate love of God and her despair at God's invisibility, her rage, and her desire for self-sacrifice lead her, between grace and madness, off along dangerous paths.

• Hors Satan | DVD | (13/05/2013) from £10.21   |  Saving you £5.78 (36.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bruno Dumont's latest film Hors Satan is beautifully shot in a protected area on the coast of Northern France, where the director has been living most of his life. Hors Satan engages in a unique way with the landscape to emphasize the inner life of the film's characters, a world of sand dunes, woods and marshes. By the Channel, along the Cte d'Opale, near a hamlet with a river and a marshland, lives a unusual guy who struggles along, poaches, prays and builds fires. A girl from a local farm takes care of him and feeds him. They spend time together in the wide scenery of dunes and woods, mysteriously engaging in private prayer at the edge of the ponds, where the devil is prowling... Special Features: Trailer 5.1 Surround Sound

• Flanders | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Flanders tells the story of a group of young men including local farmer Demster who go to fight in an unnamed war with brutal consequences. Juxtaposing rural images of their home village against the often savage and unrelenting landscape of war the film charts familiar Dumont territory by offering a uniqe vision against a backdrop of an unconventional love story between Demester and his fragile sometime girlfriend Barbe

• Camille Claudel 1915 | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £7.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Confined to a remote asylum near Avignon by her family the sculptor Camille Claudels claims of persecution are seen as proof of her madness. She rails impotently against her imprisonment the poisoning of her food her abandonment by her family and (most importantly) the theft of her art by her one-time lover Rodin. Awaiting a visit from her sanctimonious brother Paul (Jean-Luc Vincent) whose self-serving love of God convinces him that his sister is somehow possessed. Camille veers between moments of awful lucidity and entirely understandable paranoia her psychological anguish made flesh by Juliette Binoche.

• P'tit Quinquin | DVD | (28/09/2015) from £8.75   |  Saving you £7.24 (82.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Originally conceived for the French-German television network Arte as a four-part serial and featuring local actors from Northern France P'tit Quinquin is an aburdist slapstick metaphysical and at times disturbing murder mystery. The film opens with the discovery of human remains stuffed inside a dead cow in a World War II German bunker by the beach. Capitaine Van der Weyden investigates this crime as well as subsequent no less bizarre ones but he has to contend with a band of young scoundrels led by P'tit Quinquin a boy who always goes around with his beloved Eve.

• Twenty-Nine Palms | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An independent photographer and his unemployed muse voyage out into the Joshua Tree desert ostensibly searching for a natural set for a magazine photoshoot. What follows is frequent bouts of violent sex in a variety of locations musing on the taciturn yet beautiful landscape and a finale that will require the audience to have a very strong constitution... Insightfully compared to a Lynchian nightmare and indeed an allegory of 9/11 Bruno Dumont's controversial movie certainly leave

• La vie de Jesus | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the great debut films of recent times Bruno Dumont's La vie de Jsus [The Life of Jesus] presents life's brutality and exhilaration played out by turns within the quarters of a tiny Flemish country town. Here positioned in relative isolation from the rest of so-called cultural Europe the connections between individuals will take on a physical power inflected by boredom by desperation and by urges as raw as the earth. Freddy and Marie (played by David Douche and Marjorie Cottreel in astonishing performances) are two teenagers with their futures uncertain and their present undefined. They ride motorbikes they have sex - communication like any other sort. But in their hometown of Bailleul in Flanders where news from the world-at-large disappears just as quickly as it drifts in death proves to be inescapable and decidedly permanent. As the film's powerful climax unfolds the viewer will come away with his or her own interpretation of how the life of Christ has figured into the story of Freddy and Marie - a contemplation on the magnitude of mercy. With its frank honest depictions of the body in the course of the sexual act La vie de Jsus announced the emergence of a powerful philosophical intelligence - and a master of dramatic control - onto the scene of world cinema.

• L'Humanite | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bruno Dumont's (Life Of Jesus) visionary and hauntingly powerful film tells the story of Pharaon De winter (Emmanuel Schotte) a police detective who lives with his mother in a working-class town in Northern France. With astonishing and raw sensitivity Pharaon agonizes over the evil he must confront every day during the course of his work. His latest case is the brutal rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl a crime so barbarous that Pharaon reels from the madness of it strug