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THE PIANO TEACHER
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piano teacher
Actors: Anne Girardot, Isabelle Huppert, Benoit Magimel
Director: Michael Haneke
Distributor: The AV Channel
Label: Directors Suite
Rated: R18+
Feature: Commentary by Isabelle Huppert + Interview with Michael Haneke & Elfriede Jelinek
Region 4 - In French with English subtitles
The Piano Teacher is a powerful and controversial new drama from the award winning filmmaker Michael Haneke. Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed woman of around forty who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and lives with her tyrannical mother (Annie Girardot), with whom she has a volatile love-hate relationship. But when one of Erika's students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer (Benoit Magimel), attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered, unleashing the full force of her previously inhibited, extreme sexuality.

LA BELLE NOISEUSE
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belle noiseuse
Actors: Emmanuelle Beart, Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli
Director: Jacques Rivette
Producer: Martine Magnac
Distributor: MRA Entertainment
Studio: Accent
Rated: M15+
Feature: Interview with Jacques Rivette and writers Pascal Bonitzer and Christine Laurent + Theatrical trailer + Filmographies
Region 4 - In French with English subtitles

Jacques Rivette's award-winning, critically acclaimed film stars Michel Piccoli in one of his finest performances as an artist who, ten years previously, abandoned his masterpiece entitled 'La Belle Noiseuse' (The Beautiful Troublemaker), a painting of his wife (Jane Birkin). When he encounters the beautiful and fascinating Marianne (Emmanuelle Beart), he is inspired to return to the unfinished canvas, using her as his new model. But disturbing tensions develop as the work progresses and the reasons for the painting's original rejection begin to surface.

THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN
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THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN
Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment
Rated: M 15+
Release Year: 1977
Region 4 - In French with English subtitles
Director: François Truffaut

NOVO
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NOVO
Actors: Eric Caravaca, Anna Mouglalis, Eduardo Noriega, Nathalie Richard, Paz Vega
Director: Jean-Pierre Limosin
Rated: MA15+
Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles

Feature: Scene selection + Trailer + Alternate Ending Sequence + Araki: An insight + Shunga: History Of Japanese Erotica In Pictures + Nawa Shibari: The Beauty Of Bondage

Novo is a refreshingly risqué comedy that explores the notion of romance between two people when only one of them can remember each encounter. Graham suffers from short-term memory loss, but when Irene, a temp who works at the same office, falls for his spontaneous charm the two begin an odd relationship where Irene must remember everything for the both of them. For Graham every time is the first time, but for Irene, it’s the forgotten details of Graham’s life before his accident that has her worried. Details like a wife and child.

BEAUTIFUL LIES
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Rated: M
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Nathalie Baye, Sami Bouajila
Distributor: Transmission
Release Year: 2010
Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles
Thirty-year-old Emilie runs a hairdressing salon where she provides an endless stream of well-meaning advice to her clients and friends, but the only person she cannot seem to help is her own mother. Jean, a young man who works for Emilie, is secretly in love with her but a pathological shyness prevents him from declaring his feelings. Finally, unable to contain himself, he opens his heart in a passionate anonymous letter, but Emilie has other plans