HAPPY END (15) 2016 FRANCE HANEKE, MICHAEL DVD – £12.99 BLU RAY – £15.99
Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Mathieu Kassovitz star in a movie about the affluent upper-bourgeois Laurent family, a family with many skeletons in their closet.
In French with English subtitles
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PLEINS FEUX SUR L’ASSASSIN/SPOTLIGHT ON A MURDERER (15) 1961 FRANCE FRANJU, GEORGES DUAL FORMAT DVD – BLU RAY £24.99
Count Hervé de Kerloguen has not long to live and, to annoy his heirs, he decides to hide in a secret room in his castle to die. With no body the counts heirs cannot claim his fortune. However suddenly the heirs die one by one. Is it murder or do they accidentally die?
In French with English subtitles
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AMOUR (12A) 2012 FRANCE HANEKE, MICHAEL £15.99
Drama exploring death, ageing and the fear of loss. Anne and George (Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant) are a couple in their 80s who are enjoying their retirement, but that changes when, after an operation following a stroke, Anne is left wheelchair-bound and paralysed. Although she expresses her wish to die, even going so far as to make an attempt at taking her own life, George tries to remind her of the beauty and worth of life itself and the love that they share for each other. BLU RAY £19.99
ENGLISH SCREENPLAY AT – http://www.sonyclassics.com/awards-information/amour_screenplay.pdf
Sight and Sound review – http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/film-week-amour
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LA COURSE DU LIÈVRE À TRAVERS LES CHAMPS/AND HOPE TO DIE (12) 1972 FRANCE CLÉMENT,.RENÉ £15.99
A fugitive needs all his wits about him when he becomes involved in a criminal gang’s plot in this crime drama from French director René Clément. Trying to outrun the assassins on his trail, Tony (Jean-Louis Trintignant) arrives in Canada to start a new life, but soon finds himself having to seek the protection of a gang of criminals led by Charley (Robert Ryan). With half the gang unsure whether they should kill him, Tony, hoping to convince them, offers his services when he learns that they’re plotting to kidnap the daughter of a local crime boss.
But just when all seems to be going well, events suddenly take an unforeseen course, forcing Tony to think fast as he tries to stay one step ahead of the pack.
DVD available at – http://www.worldonlinecinema.com/Home/french-dvds
Film review by Craig Pay – http://flickfeast.co.uk/reviews/film-reviews/hope-die-1972/
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