New on Blu-ray: DEADLY CIRCUIT aka MORTELLE RANDONNEE (1983) Starring Isabelle Adjani and Michel Serrault

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Product Description: Isabelle Adjani (The Story of Adele H, Possession) is the ultimate femme fatale—a serial killer who lures wealthy men to their deaths. Michel Serrault (La Cage aux Folles), a solitary detective known as “The Eye,” is in pursuit. Convinced she is his long-lost daughter, he shadows her through Europe, concealing incriminating evidence and helping her elude the police as she changes identities and conducts a blood-soaked murder spree. But when Catherine falls in love with a blind artist (Sami Frey, Band of Outsiders), The Eye’s obsession grows even more extreme—and deadly. A brilliant, seductive, blackly comic Euro-noir confection, Deadly Circuit (Mortelle randonnée) was nominated for five César Awards, including Best Actor (Serrault), Best Supporting Actress (the wonderfully eccentric Stéphane Audran) and Best Cinematography (Pierre Lhomme). Lavishly directed by Claude Miller and co-scripted by father-and-son auteurs, Michel and Jacques Audiard, from Marc Behm’s novel Eye of the Beholder, the title for the 1999 American film based on the same subject directed by Stephen Elliott; and starring Ashley Judd and Ewan McGregor. “The most stylized, the most beautiful, and the most literary of all French thrillers.” — Télérama

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New on Blu-ray: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES II (1980)

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Product Description: Ugo Tognazzi (La Grande Bouffe) and Michel Serrault (Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud) reprise their roles as the two madcap domestic partners from the hilarious smash hit La Cage aux Folles. Having “become the most improbable of male screen heroes” (New York), Renato and Albin are this time taking on the secret service in an unforgettable cross-country—not to mention cross-dressing—adventure. In a move to make his partner, Renato (Tognazzi), jealous, the flamboyant Albin (Serrault) waits in a local café—dressed as a woman—hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm! Now on the run from ruthless agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm with Albin posing as Renato’s wife! Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these relentless spies or does he have to sustain this charade—as a woman—forever? Édouard Molinaro (A Pain in the Ass) returns to the director’s chair and maestro Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) provides the score for this uproarious sequel!

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New on Blu-ray: NELLY & MONSIEUR ARNAUD (1995) Starring Emmanuelle Beart and Michel Serrault

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Product Description: Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud, starring the luminous Emmanuelle Beard (Mission: Impossible), is the profoundly moving final lm from masterful French director Claude Sautee (Un Coeur end hiver). Nelly (Beard), 25, is stuck in a loveless marriage while barely making ends meet. A friend introduces her to the wealthy and much older Arnaud (Michel Perrault, La Cage aux Follies) in order to help him write his memoirs. Thus begins a playful, tentative flirtation that is forever threatening to bloom into a romance. But instead Nelly gets involved with Arnaud’s charming editor (Jean-Hughes An glade, La Femme Nikita). Arnaud and Nelly get stuck in a silent dance of sideways glances and off-hand gestures, the secret choreography of unrequited love. Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud, winner of Best Actor (Michel Perrault) and Best Director at the Cesar Awards, is a poignant, bittersweet, and beautifully performed romance that stands as an exquisite capstone to Sauté's brilliant career.

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