Breathe - DVD

On a dark and stormy night during the last bitter days of the Anglo-Boer War, a gravely wounded Boer General is nursed by Anna, a herbalist with mysterious powers. Her seductive, otherworldly daughter, Annie, is also fighting for survival, but needs more than her mother's concoctions and care to keep going. Barend is the General's faithful and courageous adjutant, lured into a web spun by mother and daughter.

A taut, nuanced story about the depths of female friendships and the dark side of teenage infatuations, Breathe, the sophomore directorial effort from Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds, Beginners), is an assured adaptation of the sensational French young adult novel of the same name. Charlie (Joséphine Japy) is seventeen and bored. Her estranged parents are too caught up in their own drama to pay her much attention. School holds no surprises either, and Charlie grows tired of her staid friends. Enter Sarah (Lou de Laâge), a confident and charismatic new transfer student who brings with her an alluring air of boldness and danger. The two form an instant connection, and through shared secrets, love interests and holiday getaways their relationship deepens to levels of unspoken intimacy. But with this intimacy comes jealousy and unrealistic expectations, and soon the teens find themselves on a dangerous trajectory toward an inevitable and unforeseen collapse

Robert and Taylor Usher expect to be happy in their new house in Northridge, California, where years ago murder and mutilations destroyed the former residents. It doesn't matter to the Ushers, until those who caused the deaths return, those that live in the earth, those that need, those that are not human. The Ushers new house stands between them and what they must have.