Movies: Walerian Borowczyk

A monster, the Beast of Gévaudan, is spreading terror in France, in the Massif Central....

During the French Revolution, a young aristocrat finds an almanac in a book store which contains the prettiest and strangest prostitutes living in Paris....

A portrait of Serb erotic surrealist painter Ljubomir "Ljuba" Popović....

An oddball pair try to find their identity and place in an abstract world....

The inhabitants of our region demand the beatification of Thérèse Fl., the pious young girl shamefully raped by a vagabond....

Borowczyk and Lenica are at their most expressive in this crude paper miniature....

An animated advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company....

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From Boccaccio's "La précaution inutile". Jean, a rich old merchant, is blessed with a young and beautiful wife. Although Bianca is absolutely faithful, he, tormented by jealousy, accuses her of the worst depravities....

Camera operator Noël Véry provides a commentary on footage shot during the making of The Beast....

Semi-documentary exposé of scandalous hunting practices in the Sologne, a wooded area south of Orléans where he shared a house at the time. The film, part tribute to Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game (1939) and its celebrated hunting scene, is nota...

About the work of the naive painter J. Plaskocinski. A playful tale about the requited love of a shy young man....

During a hospital stay in 2001, the Polish painter, sculptor and filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk compiled a handwritten list of the objects and animals that were featured in his films. While he had used both encyclopedias and dictionaries to order chaos...

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....

This short film by Walerian Borowczyk was made in 1979 but is so little known that when it was rediscovered in 2014 it had not been included in any of his filmographies. Of all Borowczyk's films, this is the one that most clearly shows his love of ea...

Julie, my cousin, was sixteen, I was twenty, and this small age difference made her docile to my commands....

Camera panning over the work of Yoshifumi Hayashi, accompanied by classical music....

This six-minute short from director Daniel Bird takes a look at the silent cinema pioneers that influenced the work of Walterian Borowczyk. We take a look at various aspects to THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE and then see the influen...

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk...

Animated photographs (made with Jan Lenica) with elements of animated cartoon. A display of military drill....