"Director: Gaspar Noé"

• Lux Aeterna | Blu Ray | (30/05/2022) from £16.77   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gaspar Noé, the arch provocateur of New French Extremity responsible for Irreversible and Enter the Void, blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction in Lux Æterna, his ode to the suffering and sacrifices involved in the creation of art. French cinema icons Charlotte Gainsbourg (Ismael's Ghosts, Antichrist) and Béatrice Dalle (Betty Blue, Inside), playing themselves, star as the lead actress and the director of an experimental film about witches. But as preparations for the shoot get underway, the increasingly chaotic production slowly unravels as egos and bitter resentments rise to the surface, threatening to derail the entire enterprise. Shot over just five days and largely improvised by the superlative cast, Lux Æterna is a powerful, hypnotic assault on the senses like no other, cementing Noé's position as one of the most incendiary voices in cinema today. Product Features High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 stereo soundtracks Optional English subtitles (French dialogue) Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (all dialogue) Brand new audio commentary by author and critic Kat Ellinger Brand new visual essay on witchcraft in cinema by author and critic Miranda Corcoran The Flicker, a 30-minute short film by Tony Conrad, whose strobing effect inspired Lux Æterna Lux in Tenebris, a selection of photos from the set by camera operator, title designer and long-term Noé collaborator Tom Kan Theatrical trailers Image gallery Reversible sleeve featuring two choices of artwork FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Neil Mitchell

• Climax | DVD | (11/02/2019) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  With Climax, Gaspar Noé, enfant terrible of French cinema and director of the highly controversial Irreversible, Enter the Void and Love, returns with perhaps his most critically-acclaimed work yet. Following a successful and visually dazzling rehearsal, a dance troupe set about celebrating with a party. But when it becomes apparent that someone has spiked the sangria, the dancers soon begin to turn on each other in an orgiastic frenzy. Starring Sofia Boutella (The Mummy, Atomic Blonde) and featuring a pulse-pounding score by the likes of Daft Punk, Aphex Twin and Gary Numan, Gaspar Noé's latest offering shows a director at the height of his hallucinatory filmmaking powers. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Standard Definition DVD presentation Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing An Antidote to the Void - a brand new interview with director Gaspar Noé Disco Infernal - film journalist Alan Jones offers up a track-by-track appreciation of the Climax soundtrack Shaman of the Screen: The Films of Gaspar Noé - a brand new video essay by writer Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring newly two artwork options

• Climax | Blu Ray | (11/02/2019) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  With Climax, Gaspar Noé, enfant terrible of French cinema and director of the highly controversial Irreversible, Enter the Void and Love, returns with perhaps his most critically-acclaimed work yet. Following a successful and visually dazzling rehearsal, a dance troupe set about celebrating with a party. But when it becomes apparent that someone has spiked the sangria, the dancers soon begin to turn on each other in an orgiastic frenzy. Starring Sofia Boutella (The Mummy, Atomic Blonde) and featuring a pulse-pounding score by the likes of Daft Punk, Aphex Twin and Gary Numan, Gaspar Noé's latest offering shows a director at the height of his hallucinatory filmmaking powers. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing An Antidote to the Void - a brand new interview with director Gaspar Noé Disco Infernal - film journalist Alan Jones offers up a track-by-track appreciation of the Climax soundtrack Shaman of the Screen: The Films of Gaspar Noé - a brand new video essay by writer Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring newly two artwork options FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Collector's booklet featuring new writing by critic Anton Bitel and a reproduction of the original press kit

• Irreversible | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £11.29   |  Saving you £-4.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Irreversible begins with the closing credits running backwards before the film begins (or ends) with Marcus (Vincent Cassell) and Pierre (Albert Dupontel) being escorted out of a gay s/m club by the cops, Marcus with his arm broken and Pierre in handcuffs. The "story" proceeds to unwind in a series of single-take scenes that unfold Memento-style, with each scene giving more context to what we have seen previously. Each scenario depicts actions, dialogue, incident, behaviour and circumstance that the lead characters might have wished didn't happen, ranging from extreme violence through awkward social situations to mild embarrassment. The central character (and possible dreamer of this whole what-if story) emerges as Alex (Monica Bellucci), who suffers the worst in a very hard-to-watch rape sequence in an underpass. Semi-improvised, the scenes all have attack and power as themes, with later/earlier conversational sequences that suggest life isn't all sexual assaults in the dark, showing equal cinematic imagination with the horrors. Arguably, this is not a film most would subject themselves to twice, but it is something that stays in the mind for days after viewing, sparking far more ideas and emotions than most wallow-in-nastiness pictures. --Kim Newman

• Enter the Void | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A drug-dealing teen is killed in Japan after which he reappears as a ghost to watch over his sister.

• Enter the Void | Blu Ray | (30/05/2022) from £59.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eight years after the controversial and shocking Irreversible, director Gaspar Noé cemented his reputation as the enfant terrible of New French Extremity with perhaps his most challenging film to date a hallucinatory meditation on life, death and rebirth, shot entirely in the first person. American siblings Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) and Linda (Paz de la Huerta, The Limits of Control) eke out a shared existence in Tokyo he by dealing drugs, she by working as a stripper. However, tragedy strikes when a deal turns sour and Oscar is shot by the police. As his lifeless body lies on the floor of a public toilet, his soul floats high above the neon-drenched Tokyo streets, observing the effect of his death on his sister and reliving the events in his life that brought him to this juncture. Described by Noé himself as a psychedelic melodrama, Enter the Void boasts mesmerising cinematography by the award-winning Benoît Debie (Climax, Spring Breakers) and a hypnotic soundtrack of experimental and electronic music. Powerful and transcendent, it offers viewers an immersive cinematic experience like no other. Product Features High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of both the 143-minute UK theatrical cut and the full-length 161-minute director's cut Original lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 stereo soundtracks Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Enter the Sensorium, a brand new visual essay on the film by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicolas Brand new video interview with typography designer and long-term Noé collaborator Tom Kan 8 deleted scenes Archival Making of Special Effects featurette Archival Vortex featurette Archival DMT Loop featurette French and international theatrical trailers 8 teaser trailers 3 unused trailers Image gallery Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring two choices of artwork Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Jon Towlson and Rich Johnson, and an oral history of the film by Steven Hanley Fold-out double-sided poster featuring two choices of artwork Six double-sided, postcard-sized artcards

• Irreversible | DVD | (28/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.