Three top Madman DVD titles

Three top Madman DVD titles By Rama Gaind COCO & IGOR (Madman Entertainment) A complicated love affair on a lush canvas, this is one film where the eye-catching locations, beautiful outfits and lovely music offer some visually stunning effects. The intense love affair between the two creative giants of Coco Chanel and the wealthy Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel leaves you feeling bereft – for some time. It’s the see-saw between what could-be and what-is. Reality is a wake-up call. Coco is mesmerised when she attends the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées She meets Stravinsky again after the death of Boy Capel. Their attraction is instant. And she offers him the use of her new village in Garches, so that he will be able to work and he moves in straight away with his children and consumptive wife. What follows will leave you tingling. THE NORTH FACE (Madman Entertainment) Heartening to realise that this is a true story and how you win against the odds. Friendship, love and survival are tested to the limit in the summer of 1936 as two avid climbers, Andi and Toni, set out to become the first to conquer The Eiger’s treacherous north face, which is rightly called the ‘Murder Wall’. The couple’s daring ascent becomes a race against time as their endurance is threatened by injury and the critical forces of nature. FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN (Madman Entertainment) Revenge and reconciliation take centre stage in this taut thriller expertly directed by Oliver Hirschbeigel. The film features a powerful cast of Liam Neeson (‘Michael Collins’), James Nesbitt (‘Jekyll’) and Anamaria Marinca (‘4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days’). Lurgan, Northern Ireland, 1975 and protestant Alastair Little, 17, yearns to be a man so he can take part in the struggle against the Catholics. He murders local lad Jim Griffin in front of his younger brother Joe. Thirty years later, Alastair and Joe come face-to-face on live television, but it’s not easy moving on from the violence of the past.