"Director: Rodrigue Jean"

• Love In The Time Of Civil War | DVD | (08/02/2016) from £8.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (43.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Alex, a young addict who still nurtures a few dreams, sells his body in Montréal's Centre-Sud district. He's flanked by Bruno, Simon, Jeanne, Éric and Velma, all of them caught in the same spiral of compulsion. Marginalized by society yet hostage to its market logic, they are the fallen angels of a dark and violent time. Ghosts stripped of past and future, they roam, buffeted by the whims of the eternal now a journey they undertake in defiant solitude punctuated by bouts of fevered consumption. Yet their beauty somehow survives, rebellious amid the ruins. Civil War gives a voice to the unexpressed.

• Men For Sale | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £3.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (653.27%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A ward-winning filmmaker Rodrigue Jean's reflective film exposes a population of Montreal that society usually prefers to overlook: the young often drug-addicted male prostitutes who work the city's sex trade industry. Men for Sale provides a mesmerising look into the lives of 11 men - most of them in their early 20s - as they attempt to explain how they all arrived at the same profession. With a humanistic eye the film uncovers the vulnerabilities of its subjects as they struggle to affirm their masculinity and make sense of their conflicting sexual practices. Some of them envision themselves escaping the sex trade industry while others feel like prisoners in a vicious cycle of drug use and prostitution. By artfully weaving together intimate confessionals and scenes of Montreal's nighttime cityscape Jean creates a dreamlike vision of a rarely-glimpsed world - one that often goes unnoticed even when in plain sight. The film which was co-produced with the National Film Board of Canada covers a difficult subject matter but Jean handles it with a sensitivity that reveals the human side of those involved and their urgent need for the public's attention.