Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Offbeat French drama from director François Ozon that explores the relationship between a literature student & the talented pupil whose gift for description he attempts to nurture Germain (Fabrice Luchini) usually despairs about the quality of the creative writing his pupils produce so when he receives a piece from the previously unremarkable student Claude (Ernst Umhauer) that displays promise he is moved to pledge assistance to the boy Complicating matters somewhat is the fact that Claude writes about the household of a friend whose mother (Emmanuelle Seigner) he has a crush on & whose mundane lives amuse him As Germain offers Claude advice on how to improve the dramatic tension within his submissions the line between fiction & reality begins to blur A strange power game develops in which Claude & Germain manipulate the family on & off the page but how will they react when fact & fiction finally collide? Actors Fabrice Luchini Ernst Umhauer Emmanuelle Seigner Kristin Scott Thomas & Denis Menochet Director François Ozon Year 2012 Languages French Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 46 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Offbeat French drama from director François Ozon that explores the relationship between a literature student & the talented pupil whose gift for description he attempts to nurture Germain (Fabrice Luchini) usually despairs about the quality of the creative writing his pupils produce so when he receives a piece from the previously unremarkable student Claude (Ernst Umhauer) that displays promise he is moved to pledge assistance to the boy Complicating matters somewhat is the fact that Claude writes about the household of a friend whose mother (Emmanuelle Seigner) he has a crush on & whose mundane lives amuse him As Germain offers Claude advice on how to improve the dramatic tension within his submissions the line between fiction & reality begins to blur A strange power game develops in which Claude & Germain manipulate the family on & off the page but how will they react when fact & fiction finally collide? Actors Fabrice Luchini Ernst Umhauer Emmanuelle Seigner Kristin Scott Thomas & Denis Menochet Director François Ozon Year 2012 Languages French Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 46 minutes (approx) ...

Explore crowded canopies towering treetops & the dense forest floor in First Explorers In the Jungle Meet tigers monkeys leopards & lots of other amazing creatures who live in the jungle Each scene has chunky push pull & slide mechanisms animals to spot & fun facts about jungle animals Beautifully illustrated by Jenny Wren this title has gentle learning & is a magical introduction to the natural world Also available Night Animals Sea Creatures Dinosaurs ...

A brilliantly colourful 100-piece jigsaw showing a busy jungle scene plus a 24-page picture puzzle book presented together in a sturdy box The jigsaw measures 59 x 40cm & both the jigsaw & book are packed with things to spot Can you spot a sloth wearing slippers crocodiles hiding in the water toucans with identical beaks & lots more? 24 pages full colour throughout Robson Kirsteen ...

The age of exploration was drawing to a close yet the mystery of the North Pole remained Contemporaries described the pole as the unattainable object of our dreams' & the urge to fill in this last great blank space on the map grew irresistible In 1879 the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds & amid a frenzy of publicity The ship & its crew captained by the heroic George De Long were destined for the uncharted waters of the Arctic But it wasn't long before the Jeannette was trapped in crushing pack ice Amid the rush of water & the shrieks of breaking wooden boards the crew found themselves marooned a thousand miles north of Siberia with only the barest supplies facing a seemingly impossible trek across endless ice Battling everything from snow blindness & polar bears to ferocious storms & frosty labyrinths the expedition fought madness & starvation as they desperately strove for survival ...

The five centuries between the end of Roman Britain (410) & the death of Alfred the Great (899) have left few voices save a handful of chroniclers but Britain's Dark Ages' can still be explored through their material remnants buildings books metalwork & above all landscapes Max Adams explores Britain's lost early medieval past by walking its paths & exploring its lasting imprint on valley hill & field From York to Whitby from London to Sutton Hoo from Edinburgh to Anglesey & from Hadrian's Wall to Loch Tay each of his ten walk narratives form both free-standing chapters & parts of a wider portrait of a Britain of fort & fyrd crypt & crannog church & causeway holy well & memorial stone Part travelogue part expert reconstruction IN THE LAND OF GIANTS offers a beautifully written insight into the lives of peasants drengs ceorls thanes monks & kings during an enigmatic but richly exciting period of our island's history ...

Alphonse Daudet was a highly popular nineteenth-century French novelist whose work radiated humour & good cheer Few knew that for his entire adult life he suffered from syphilis a disease both unmentionable & incurable at the time What even fewer realised was that he kept an intimate notebook in which he recorded the development & terrifying effects of the disease Describing a life in pain & the sometimes alarming treatments he underwent Daudet's journal is unique for its comic zest lucid self-examination & stoicism Translated by the Booker Prize-winning writer Julian Barnes ...

IN THE LAND OF WOMEN is a surprisingly sombre yet funny coming-of-age tale from director Jon Kasdan & stars Adam Brody in a role not too different from his beloved Seth Cohen on the night-time teen soap THE OC Brody playing a character his own age breezily inhabits Carter a loveable but somewhat directionless screenwriter (if you count soft-core porn films) who is dumped by his beautiful but shallow starlet girlfriend Sofia at the start of the film In crisis mode he packs up & heads to the Detroit suburb where his senile grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) lives in an attempt to help her out & get some perspective While desperately trying to make sense of his grandmother's incoherent ramblings Carter slaves away at a long-coming screenplay & creates confusing friendships with the mother (Meg Ryan) & daughter (Kristen Stewart) next door While the film sometimes seems to be grasping for something it can't quite find it is entertaining throughout especially for fans of Brody Thanks to some clever dialogue quirky characters & Brody's oddball line delivery IN THE LAND OF WOMEN manages to get more than a few laughs That said the film also deals with serious issues like sickness & death in a light-hearted way Ryan & Stewart both add depth to what could be one-dimensional characters & while Brody's performance doesn't feel like much of a stretch it's nice to see the actor moving towards some slightly more adult material Kasdan packs the film to the brim with indie pop songs providing a hip soundtrack for a story that feels contemporary by refusing to fit the traditional romantic-comedy mould ...

One September morning in 2008 an investment banker approaching forty his career in collapse & his marriage unravelling receives a surprise visitor at his West London home He struggles to place the dishevelled figure carrying a backpack until he recognizes a friend from his student days a brilliant man who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances The friend has resurfaced to make a confession of unsettling power Theirs is the age-old story of the bond between two men & the betrayal of one by the other As the friends begin to talk & as their room becomes a world a journey begins that is by turns exhilarating shocking intimate & strange Set against the breaking of nations & beneath the clouds of economic crisis & moving between Kabul New York Oxford London & Islamabad In the Light of What We Know tells the story of people wrestling with unshakeable legacies of class & culture & pushes at the great questions of love origins science faith & war In an extraordinary feat of imagination Zia Haider Rahman has woven the seismic upheavals of our young century into a novel of rare compassion scope & courage ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) is a tough veteran Secret Service agent who has been plagued by feeling s of guilt & failure since the assassination of John F Kennedy As the agent on duty that fatal day Horrigan feels that he should have reacted more quickly & taken the bullet for the President Thirty years later the current President of the United States is entering a re-election campaign & following a number of death threats Horrigan has been called in to assist in what should be a routine research operation However when he discovers that a professional assassin & master of disguise (John Malkovich) has been tracking the President the assignment turns into a deadly game of cat & mouse Leary uses his knowledge of the events in 1963 to mentally torture Horrigan in the ensuing psychological duel
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