Walerian Borowczyk

From Radical Animator to Frenzied Erotomaniac

Reviews:

• Goto, l’île d’amour : A vital, pre-erotic step in Borowczyk’s work, revealing a highly individual approach to live action as seen through the eyes of an animator.
• The Streetwalker (aka The Margin): A beautiful melancholic meditation on sex in a dirty, dirty world.
• Blanche: Borowczyk’s elegant, sophisticated medieval tragedy exceeds conventional historical dramas.
• The Story of Sin: Eve is traditionally the temptress, but in Borowczyk's tragic 19th-century romance, it is Ewa who is tempted.
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne: A kinky French horror film, with a disturbingly lustful sadism.
• The Beast: Part fairy tale, part sex romp, part Buñuelian satire, Walerian Borowczyk’s most notorious film remains a quirky oddity.

Feature:

• The Motion Demon: At his best, the ground-breaking Polish director made films as if he had invented cinema.

Reel Sounds:

• Bernard Parmegiani: Bruit Force: Borowczyk's most important musical collaborator was a giant of musique concrète.

Short Cuts:

• Walerian Borowczyk, the Avant-garde Animator: Before founding fame with his erotic fantasies, the Polish director was an accomplished and inventive animator.

Comic Strip Reviews:

• Who Is Walerian Borowczyk? A survey of the ground-breaking Polish director's career as a board game.

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