DVD & Blu-ray: LOST ILLUSIONS Starring Benjamin Voisin

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Product Description: In the southwest of 19th-century France, the cleverness of young aspiring poet Lucien Chardon (Benjamin Voisin) won him a patron and clandestine lover in the wealthy Madame de Bargeton (Cécile de France). Their sojourn to Paris, however, found him struggling and settling for a newspaper critic's life... and the ultimate corruption of his personal ideals. Acclaimed take on the Honoré de Balzac novel also stars Xavier Dolan, Vincent LaCoste, Jeanne Balibar, and Gérard Depardieu. 149 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: French; Subtitles: English. In French with English subtitles.

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2017 César Awards Winners: ELLE Wins Best Film

The big winner at the 2017 César Awards was Paul Verhoeven's psychological drama "Elle". The film won Best Film and Best Actress for Isabelle Huppert's amazing performance, which also earned her and Academy Award nomination. Unfortunately, "Elle" did not make the Foreign Language Oscar shortlist.

Other major awards were split between Xavier Dolan's "It's Only the End of the World", which scored Best Actor (Gaspard Ulliel), Director and Editing (both for Dolan), and Houda Benyamina's "Divines" won Best Debut Feature, Supporting Actress (Deborah Lukumuena) and Best Female Newcomer (Oulaya Amamra).

Read the complete list of 2017 Cesar awards winners.

2016 Cannes Film Festival Winners

The winners of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival have been announced during the closing ceremony which provided plenty of surprises. Kirsten Dunst, Arnaud Desplechin, Katayoon Shahadi, Mads Mikkelsen, Laszlo Nemes, Vanessa Paradis, Valeria Golino and Donald Sutherland were part of the jury led by "Mad Max: Fury Road" director George Miller, and the process of selecting the winners was reportedly "exhausting". So, here are the winners:

• Palme d'Or: I, Daniel Blake by Ken Loach
• Grand Prize: It’s Only the End of the World by Xavier Dolan
• Best Direction: Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper) & Cristian Mungiu (Graduation)
• Best Screenplay: The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi
• Best Actress: Jaclyn Jose in Ma'Rosa by Brillante Mendoza
• Jury Prize: American Honey by Andrea Arnold
• Best Actor: Shahab Hosseini in The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi
• Honorary Palme: Jean-Pierre Léaud
• Caméra d'Or: Divines by Houda Benyamina
• Palme d'Or Short Film: Timecode By Juanjo Gimenez
• Short Film Special Distinction: The Girl Who Danced With The Devil by João Paolo Miranda Maria

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Natalie Portman and Nicholas Hoult Join THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN

Natalie Portman ("Black Swan") and Nicholas Hoult ("Mad Max: Fury Road") have joined the already impressive cast of writer/director Xavier Dolan's drama "The Death and Life of John F. Donovan".

The film stars Kit Harington as the titular character, a television actor whose correspondence with an 11-year-old fan and child-actor from England is publicly exposed by a gossip columnist (Jessica Chastain) in the early 2000s, and his life and career are destroyed due to ill founded assumptions. The young actor recollects his relationship with his past idol ten years later in an interview.

The film also stars Susan Sarandon as Donovan's mother and Kathy Bates as his manager. There are no other details regarding who Portman and Hoult will play, although the latter could possibly play the older version of the 11-year-old boy. The cast also includes Thandie Newton, Michael Gambon, Bella Thorne, Chris Zylka and Emily Hampshire. There is no official release date, but it's expected to open in theaters this year.

"The Death and Life of John F. Donovan" is Dolan's english-language debut, but the critically acclaimed filmmaker already has a solid track record. Apart from directing Adele's hit video "Hello", he's also made five other feature films that have earned him five nominations and six awards at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Jury Prize with "Mommy" (which also earned him a Palme d'Or nod), the Queer Palm with "Laurence Anyways" and Regards Jeunes Prize with "Les amours imaginaires" and "J'ai tué ma mère". Dolan's next film will be the drama "It's Only the End of the World" starring Léa Seydoux, Marion Cotillard and Vincent Cassel.

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DVD & Blu-Ray: LAURENCE ANYWAYS 2012 Cannes Film Festival Winner

LAURENCE ANYWAYS

Rated: Not Rated | Runtime: 161 min | Studio: Breaking Glass Pictures

Synopsis: The third film from Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan (I Killed My Mother, Heartbeats) is an epic, visually stunning romance featuring the soundtrack of the year. Laurence, a high school literature teacher and soon-to-be-published author, enjoys an intense and mutually loving relationship with his girlfriend Frédérique. But on the day after his 35th birthday, Laurence confesses to Fred that he longs to become a woman, asking her to support his transformation. The film follows the course of the couple's on-again, off-again relationship throughout the 1990s.

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