Silk/Safe Harbour/Laws Of Attraction DVD

Silk (Dir. Fran''ois Girard) (2007): Based on Alessandro Baricco's novel Silk is the story of a silkworm smuggler and his adventures in Japan. When the p''brine epidemic - the spotted silkworm disease that ravaged eggs from European hatcheries in the 1860's - spreads overseas the entire European silk trade seemed doomed. In order to continue his lucrative trade Baldabiou (Molina) a roguish French silk trader decides to send a young military officer Herve Joncour (Pitt) on a perilous mission to Japan. Thus separating him for months on end from Helene (Knightley) his... lovely and devoted schoolteacher wife. Japan the island that produced the finest silk in the world for thousands of years prior to the opening of the Suez Canal was considered a dominion forbidden to foreigners quite literally the opposite end of the world. It is here that Herve encounters the powerful and feared local baron Hara Jubei (Yakusho) with whom he will trade for the precious silkworm eggs. And it is here in a world unlike anything that Herve has experienced before that he becomes entranced by the baron's concubine a deeply mysterious girl of intoxicating beauty. Safe Harbour (Dir. Bill Corcoran) (2007): Escape to Safe Harbour the gripping story of love loss and the powerful bonds that can heal a wounded heart. Ofelia is a grieving young widow. Matt is a heartbroken artist. Both feel as though they have lost everything until on a remote fog-shrouded California beach they find each other. But as their passion grows into something far more than either dares to dream the darkness of their pasts will threaten to destroy what could be their last chance for true love. Laws Of Attraction (Dir. Peter Howitt) (2004): A romantic comedy in which two jaded New York divorce lawyers (Brosnan Moore) are often competing against each other in court actions. After romance blossoms between them they decide to get married. However once wed will they be able to avoid the same difficulties at home that provide them with business at work? [show more]

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