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The Beast
An outrageous classic of erotic cinema, Walerian Borowczykβs playful and subversive fantasy finds a horny heiress courting the ravenous desires of a wild beast.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Overview
An outrageous classic of erotic cinema, Walerian Borowczykβs playful dismantling of bourgeoisie norms concerns Lucy, an heiress destined to marry the deformed son of her late fatherβs best friend. Upon discovering the myth of a ravenous beast that stalks her fiancΓ©βs estate, Lucy becomes lost in a dream world of sexual fantasies involving the insatiable creature.
Initially prepared as a segment of Borowczykβs portmanteau film Immoral Tales (also on BFI Player), the director was forced to excise the sequence and subsequently expanded it into the feature-length The Beast.
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