new dvd releases



Catherine Cookson:
Compassion, fear, lust and devotion - all these things we have come to expect when we pick up a Catherine Cookson novel. Now, courtesy of ITV DVD, on 21st August 2006 you can enter the world of this masterful storyteller at just the push of a button, through 23 feature length adaptations of her most popular books. Join June Whitfield, Catherine Zeta Jones and Robson Green in over 70 hours of classic storytelling over 3 digi packs, each available to buy separately or in The Complete Collection.


Clean:
Awarded the Best Actress award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, MAGGIE CHEUNG stars in CLEAN, an absorbing story of redemption and self discovery also starring NICK NOLTE and directed by Cheung's ex-husband OLIVIER ASSAYAS.

When her washed up 80s rock star boyfriend Lee Hauser is found dead of an overdose in a motel room, Emily Wang is arrested for possession of heroin and put into prison. At the snap of a finger her life falls to pieces.
When she is released six months later, she decides to start over in Paris where she once lived. But everything has changed. The one thing to which she still feels a sense of attachment is her son, Jay, who is growing up with Lee's parents, Albrecht (NICK NOLTE) and Rosemary Hauser. But they live on the other side of the world in Vancouver, Canada. All Emily has to do to win the boy back is rebuild her life from the ruins of a rock and roll past and go clean.


Hell aka L'Enfer
HELL (L'Enfer) is the stunning new film from Academy Award winning director DANIS TANOVIC (No Man's Land). Featuring an impressive ensemble cast including EMMANUELLE BEART, CAROLE BOUQUET and JEAN ROCHEFORT, HELL is a film of subtle nuances as it tells the story of three sisters united by a common tragedy in the past but distanced from each other in the present.

In Paris in the 1980s, a man, fresh from his release from prison, is rejected by his wife. After a violent confrontation he throws himself from his apartment window, witnessed by his three young daughters. In present day Paris, the sisters, now grown up, live their own lives and the family bonds are broken. Sophie (EMMANUELLE BEART), the eldest, is married with young children and suspects her husband of having an affair. Middle sister Celine (KARIN VIARD) lives a solitary life, caring for her difficult mother and the youngest sister, Anne (MARIE GILLAIN) is a student involved in a messy relationship with one of her tutors. It takes a handsome stranger (GUILLAUME CANET) to make inroads into each of their lives, gradually drawing them together again and back into their shared past.