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Juan Luis Bunuel, son of acclaimed director Luis Bunuel, continues in his father's surrealistic tradition with this French fantasy-drama. BELLE DE JOUR star Catherine Deneuve plays an avant-garde writer named Francoise whose encounter with an elderly millionaire takes an unexpected turn. The old man begins to meddle in her life, and when his manipulations draw in an unsuspecting married man, Francoise fights back with an arsenal of supernatural powers. Soon nothing is as it seems as the millionaire's mansion is overrun with ghostly apparitions and visions of the past. Featuring the elder Bunuel's regular actor Fernando Rey, this rare Deneuve film is now available for the first time on DVD and video.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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Before he began his foray into the world of art-house cinema with the serene and deeply meditative SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER...AND SPRING, South Korean director Ki-duk Kim made a series of harrowing horror-dramas that delved into life`s gritty underbelly (BAD GUY, THE ISLE). As one of Kim`s earlier works, REAL FICTION displays the former enfant terrible`s weakness for macabre subject matter with the story of a frustrated artist (Jin-mo Ju) who wreaks vengeance on his enemies while a female companion videotapes the murderous rampage with a camcorder. Kim undergirds this relatively straightforward narrative with an experimental style, shooting in real time without any retakes for a near-exploitative, TAXI DRIVER-like study of modern alienation and urban malaise.
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Nicholas Tse stars in this genre bending comedy about two comic book writers who fall for the same woman. Both artists have yet to master their social skills, and so resort to creating comic book heroes to both fight out their friendly rivalry and provide advice for getting the girl. However, their lives take a turn for the weird when their creations come to life and begin advising them for real.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseLetterboxedAudio: Stereo - Cantonese Stereo - MandarinAdditional Release Material: TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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This moody French film from director Sibastian Lifshitz tells the story of Stiphanie (Stiphanie Michelini), a jaded transsexual prostitute who leaves Paris to take care of her dying mother (Josiane Storelu) in the country. She brings along her two lovers, a street-hustling Arab boy, Jamel (Yasmine Belmadi), and a Russian ex-soldier named Mikhail (Edouard Nikitine). While Stephanie and her mom come to grips with their troubled past, Mikhail has his own problems dealing with his mother back in Russia, as does Jamel who finds his lifestyle not warmly accepted by his conventional family. This is a film about crossing barriers sexually, personally, and even--to comical effect--linguistically, as Mikhail does not speak French, so everyone has to communicate in the commonly shared broken English. The structure of the film is also broken, with events presented in a jigsaw, out-of-order format, including scenes from Stephanie`s childhood as a boy with her adoring sister (who died in childhood), and scenes of sometimes graphic sexual exploration. Androgynous singer Anthony (of Anthony and the Johnsons) opens the film and sets the mood with a heartbreaking serenade to a parlor full of elegantly dressed transsexuals. Real life transsexual Michelini is superb in the lead, conveying a sophistication that draws from the same bottomless well of sexual ennui as Isabelle Huppert and Marlene Dietrich. The photography by Agnis Godard captures with somber eloquence the crumbling suburban facades of Northern France and the intertwined bodies of the lead actors.
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