Walerian Borowczyk
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491_9781861714244
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK: THE BEAST Walerian Borowczyk (known as Boro) is one of cinemas one-offs. Quite simply, there is no filmmaker quite like Borowczyk. Borowczyks films have an astonishing, magical quality. They reach a place very rare in contemporary cinema, and are quite unlike the films of any other auteur. Borowczyks movies create their own space, with imagery, sounds and music of a really exceptional power. The appendices include a note on fairy tales, and on other versions of Beauty and the Beast (including the Jean Cocteau movie, and the 1991 Walt Disney musical movie). Fully illustrated, with stills from The Beast, and Walerian Borowczyks movies, plus influences, a bibliography, filmography, appendices, quotes from Borowczyk and notes. 168pp. www.crmoon.com La Bête (a.k.a. The Beast, The Beast in Heat and Deaths Ecstasy, 1975) was Walerian Borowczyks most controversial ?lm, a mixture of French farce, surrealism, and a lot of sex (including bestiality). The story of La Bête involves an American heiress Lucy Broadhurst (Lisbeth Hummel) being brought to a French chateau with her aunt Virginia (Elisabeth Kaza) by the scheming owners (in particular the marquis, Pierre de lEsperance [played by Guy Tréjan]), who need to marry her to the earthy, degenerate (and somewhat backward) son of the family Mathurin (Pierre Benedetti) in order to circumvent a will whichll keep the family home intact. Thats the framing story, about grasping aristocrats, decadent morality, degenerate priests and sexually repressed young women. This part of the ?lms set in the 20th century, though its not the conventional modern, urban world of most movies. La Bête takes place exclusively at the French chateau and its grounds (the ?lm is in French, but there is English dialogue - Virginia, Lucy and their chauffeur speak English). AUTHORS NOTE: This book is expanded from my book on Walerian Borowczyk. The book includes an introduction relating Borowczyk to ma
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