Walerian Borowczyk — Director (25)
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Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal (1967)
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Walerian Borowczyk actor: Louisette Rousseau / Pierre Collet …
other title: Théâtre de Monsieur & Madame Kabal / Mr. and Mrs. Kabal's Theatre …
"Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal" is Walerian Borowczyk’s first feature-length film and his last animated film. It consists of a sequence of loosely connected scenes, much like a vaudeville program, in which Mr. and Mrs. Kabal perform absurd, surreal, and sometimes cruel acts.
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Tom Thumb (1966)
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Walerian Borowczyk
other title: Le Petit Poucet
An animated advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company. After being abandoned in the woods with no food, a group of children takes refuge in a nearby house. However, the hungry ogre that lives there is about to come home...
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Diptych (1967)
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Walerian Borowczyk actor: Léon Boyer
other title: Diptyque
A short film by Walerian Borowczyk in two parts. The first 'panel' follows the morning routine of Leon Boyer who, despite being almost 100 years old, still farms the land, drives a vintage car, and plays with his two dogs. The second panel shows shots of beautiful flowers and a cat, to a recording of Tino Rossi singing 'La romance de Nadir / Je crois encore entendre' from Bizet's opera 'Les pêcheurs de perles'.
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Emmanuelle 5 (1987)
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Walerian Borowczyk actor: Monique Gabrielle / Crofton Hardester …
Emmanuelle, the sexiest woman in the world, endures a streak of bad luck that begins when she's stripped by a mob of adoring fans at an international film festival. Emmanuelle's lousy luck continues when she's abducted from her yacht off the South of France and forced to submit to the erotic desires of an Arab sheik.
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L'armoire (1979)
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Walerian Borowczyk actor: Marie-Catherine Conti / Yves-Marie Maurin
A man seeks for satisfaction from a prostitute working in a revue. He pays for the whole night and discovers a saddening truth about her.
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The Golden Lotus (1991)
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Walerian Borowczyk actor: Yoko Tani / Chun-Yan Ning …
other title: Le lotus d'or
Ximen Qing, a rich mandarin, deserts his wives to play with the courtesans. One of his young spouses, tired of languishing, consoles herself with a lackey.
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Immoral Women (1979)
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Walerian Borowczyk actor: Marina Pierro / Gaëlle Legrand …
other title: Tre donne immorali? / Umoralske kvinder …
The first episode – featuring frequent Borowczyk muse Marina Pierro – is the longest and, in a way, most substantial: it’s set in Renaissance Rome, with the lusty (and perpetually nude) leading lady sexually involved with famous painters and church benefactors. The second episode is the most notorious and, consequently, gave the film its controversial poster – featuring a rabbit slowly disappearing under the skirt of a teenage girl (played by Gaelle Legrand). The third and final episode, which has a modern-day setting, is the shortest – but also, possibly, the most outrageous: Pascale Christophe is a young married woman who’s abducted on a busy Parisian street by a small-time hood hidden inside a cardboard box!
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The Margin (1976)
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Walerian Borowczyk actor: Sylvia Kristel / Joe Dallesandro …
other title: Il margine / Emanuela 77 …
A businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.
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The Phonograph (1969)
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Walerian Borowczyk
other title: Le phonographe
An old phonograph assembles itself, plays songs on wax drums before self destructing. In many ways The Phonograph is a companion piece to Renaissance, there is nevertheless something quietly affecting about Borowczyk’s final ‘object’ animation.
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Banner of Youth (1957)
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Walerian Borowczyk / Jan Lenica
other title: Sztandar Młodych
A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its abstract elements painted directly onto film stock. An attempt at showing the complexity of the world in a capsule, the film reflects the new policy of the openness to the West during the Thaw of the late 1950s in Poland.
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Private Collections (1979)
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Just Jaeckin / Walerian Borowczyk … actor: Roland Blanche / Marie-Catherine Conti …
other title: Collections privées / Coleções privadas …
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed.
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The Astronauts (1959)
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Walerian Borowczyk / Chris Marker actor: Michel Boschet / Ligia Branice …
other title: Gli astronauti / Les Astronautes
An inventor builds a homemade spacecraft, and uses it to have various adventures, including peeping at women, visiting ‘human’ planets, and becoming involved in intergalactic warfare.