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Festival Spotlight
23 lipca 2013
Festival Spotlight - The Final Cut
The Final Cut – Walerian Borowczyk, Immoral Tales and the Censor Blurring the line between art and pornography, Walerian Borowczyk was always destined to court the scrutiny of film censors. The eroticism of his early work, championed by critics and feted at festivals, developed into more explicit imagery as western societies' attitude to sexuality and its representation became more relaxed. Things finally came to a head with the release of Immoral Tales in 1974. A huge success with audiences in France, where the majority of the director's films were produced, its four tales of debauchery and excess proved too much for authorities and extensive cuts were made. New Horizons offers audiences a rare opportunity to see the original uncut version of the film. Like much of Borowczyk's work, a number of the stories are based on literary sources, although each is ultimately the result of the director's own preoccupations and imagination. In the first segment Fabrice Luchini's André is entranced by his 16-year-old cousin Julie (Lisa Danvers) whom he takes to the beach in order for her to fellate him to the rhythm of the sea. It is based on the writings of André Pieyre de Mandiargues, whose 1967 novel 'The Margin' would be adapted by Borowczyk in 1976. The second tale, 'Thérése Philosophe' finds Charlotte Alexandra's teenage girl obsessing over Christ with the aid of a cucumber. The story is loosely taken from the 18th century pornographic novel whose author is uncertain, but believed to be the outspoken anti-Catholic and scourge of the Inquisition, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens. The poet Valentine's Penrose's account of the debauched 17th century countess and mass serial killer of young girls, Elizabeth Báthory, played here by Paloma Picasso, is the third story. And finally, there is the tale of Lucrezia Borgia, the daughter of Pope Alexander VI, who engages in sex with her family members. Ian Haydn Smith |
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