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  1. Ideal Husband, An (1999 Film, Video)

    Director
    Oliver Parker
    Producer
    Bruce Davey; Uri Fruchtmann; Barnaby Thompson
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An adaptation by Oliver Parker of the Oscar Wilde play, a period drama set in London in 1895.

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  2. King is Alive (2000 Film)

    Director
    Kristian Levring
    Producer
    Patricia Kruijer; Vibeke Windelov

    Feature film emerging from the Dogme 95 manifesto and the first to be filmed outside Scandinavia in the English language. 10 tourists, travelling by bus in the Namibian desert, are stranded when the bus runs...

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  3. Claim, The (2003)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £5.99

    Adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’, relocated to California in the 1860s.

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  4. Tess (1996)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 164), £12.99

    A film adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel, directed by Roman Polanski.

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  5. Jane Eyre (1996)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £12.99

    A film adaptation by Franco Zeffirelli of Charlotte Bronte’s novel. DVD extras - theatrical trailer

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  6. Last Mitterand, The (2005)

    aka: Promeneur du Champs de Mars, Le

    Subject
    French studies; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £19.99

    A dramatised film based on the writing of Francois Mitterand’s memoirs, providing a glimpse of his life, times and legacy. The old man is dying from prostate cancer and knows he doesn’t have much time to...

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  7. Microcosmos (1996 Video)

    aka: Microcosmos: Le Peuple en Herbe

    Director
    Claude Nuridsany; Marie Pérennou
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £15.99

    Uses cinemicrography, flying cameras and time-lapse cinematography to present a insect’s-eye view of the wildlife found in a meadow in southern France in summertime. Shows a bee gathering pollen; a...

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  8. Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources (2000)

    Subject
    French studies; Literature
    Distribution
    DVD (225 minutes), £19.99

    The two films by Claude Berri, based on the books by Marcel Pagnol, combined on one DVD

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  9. Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007)

    Subject
    French studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £19.99

    The film tells the remarkable tale of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), the world-renowned editor of French ELLE magazine, who suffered a stroke and was paralyzed by the inexplicable ‘locked in’...

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