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Responsible for producing some of the most genuinely unsettling, disturbing and controversial films ever made (both Love Rites and The Beast were dismissed in some quarters as pornography whilst they were lauded elsewhere for their unique surrealist imagination), Borowczyk Walerian is the kind of director you’d be foolish to dismiss without closer inspection: in short f... [+]

Responsible for producing some of the most genuinely unsettling, disturbing and controversial films ever made (both Love Rites and The Beast were dismissed in some quarters as pornography whilst they were lauded elsewhere for their unique surrealist imagination), Borowczyk Walerian is the kind of director you’d be foolish to dismiss without closer inspection: in short films like his Guy de Maupassant adaptation, Rosalie, and in his longer works, Immoral Tales and Behind Convent Walls, you can see a vivid (albeit sometimes also lurid) examinations of contemporary mores. [-]