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Walerian Borowczyk
Controversial, iconoclastic and erotic, the works of Walerian Borowczyk have inspired censure and acclaim in equal measure.
Having first established himself in Poland as a hugely influential animator, Borowczyk enraged the authorities with his second feature, Goto - Island of Love, which depicted a crumbling dictatorship.
Reestablishing himself in France, he made his name with a series of brilliant but controversial works - Blanche, The Beast, Immoral Tales - until a late-career dip bestowed him with an unfair reputation as a pornographer.
His work has since been reappraised. A series of remastered re-releases cast his films in a new light, highlighting once unheralded pieces such as the surrealist masterpiece, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne.
With Borowczyk's reputation now rightfully restored we can admire the provocative vision of this master of sensuous cinema.
The BeastThe Beast
Comedy 1975 98 minsDirector: Walerian Borowczyk
An outrageous classic of erotic cinema, Walerian Borowczyk’s playful and subversive fantasy finds a horny heiress courting the ravenous desires of a wild beast.
Immoral TalesImmoral Tales
Anthology 1974 103 minsDirector: Walerian Borowczyk
Walerian Borowczyk presents four stories of sexual taboos throughout the ages, in his highly controversial classic of 1970s erotic cinema.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Horror 1981 91 minsDirector: Walerian Borowczyk
Udo Kier stars in Walerian Borowczyk's delirious erotic fever dream, which re-imagines Robert Louis Stephenson's moral tale as a deranged domestic sex farce.
BlancheBlanche
Period drama 1971 94 minsDirector: Walerian Borowczyk
Borowczyk's visually stunning historical drama, which presents the story of a young woman's hypnotic beauty in the style of a moving medieval fresco.
Mr. and Mrs. Kabal's TheatreMr. and Mrs. Kabal's Theatre
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1967 77 minsDirector: Walerian Borowczyk
Walerian Borowczyk's (The Beast, Immoral Tales) first feature-length work is an existential marital drama set in a bizarre wasteland populated by exotic flora and fauna.
Goto, Island of LoveGoto, Island of Love
Drama 1968 93 minsDirector: Walerian Borowczyk
Borowczyk's entrancing fantasy set on a bizarre archipelago cut off from civilisation, where a petty thief attempts to seduce the dictator's wife.
The Story of SinThe Story of Sin
Drama 1976 125 minsDirector: Walerian Borowczyk
Borowczyk’s Palme d'Or-nominated historical melodrama is his most passionate film, casting a critical eye on the Catholic Church while attaining an ecstatic pitch.