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Borowczyk is interested in the corset rather than the breast, the shoe rather than the foot, the antique sex toy rather than the genitals.īorowczyk’s stylistic fetishism found its first expression in the graphic arts. For this misunderstood, or at least mislabeled artist, sex is an engine that propels the bizarre mechanism of human sociality, and he is fascinated with its trappings, its effects, its attendant rituals. Never one to shy away from the explicit, at the same time he refused to present sexuality as simple or purely carnal. Borowczyk, who died in 2003, used the quotation as the epigram to a pivotal film in his career, his first truly ‘erotic’ work, Immoral Tales (1974). Taken as a sort of manifesto on erotic art, La Rochefoucald’s quotation suitably encapsulates the artistic concerns of the late, controversial Polish/French director Walerian Borowczyk. 1968Īll titles distributed by Cult Epics, “However enjoyable love may be, it is enjoyable more for the ways through which it manifests itself, than for itself alone.”-La Rochefoucauld
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Produced by Louis Duchesne, Rene Thevenet written and directed by Walerian Borowczyk edited by Charles Bretoneiche cinematography by Guy Durban music by Georg Friedrich Handel starring Pierre Brasseur and Ligia Branice. Produced by Anatole Dauman written, directed, and edited by Walerian Borowczyk cinematography by Bernard Daillencourt, Marcel Grignon music by Domenico Scarlatti starring Sirpa Lane and Lisbeth Hummel. Produced by Philippe Guez directed by Walerian Borowcyzk written by Walerian Borowczyk and Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues edited by Florence Poulain, Guila Salama, Lili Sonnet, Marie-Helene Zirisch cinematography by Gerard Monceau, Jean-Paul Sergent, Michel Zolat music by Johann Sebastian Bach starring Marina Pierro and Mathieu Carriere.