WALERIAN BOROWCZYK: THE BEAST
Walerian Borowczyk (known as 'Boro') is one of cinema's
one-offs. Quite simply, there is no filmmaker quite like Borowczyk.
Borowczyk's 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. Borowczyk's 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
Borowczyk's movies, plus influences, a bibliography, filmography,
appendices, quotes from Borowczyk and notes. 168pp.
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La Bete (a.k.a. The Beast, The Beast in Heat and Death's
Ecstasy, 1975) was Walerian Borowczyk's most controversial lm, a
mixture of French farce, surrealism, and a lot of sex (including
bestiality). The story of La Bete 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 l'Esperance played by Guy
Trejan]), 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 which'll keep the family home
intact.
That's the framing story, about grasping aristocrats, decadent
morality, degenerate priests and sexually repressed young women.
This part of the lm's set in the 20th century, though it's not the
conventional modern, urban world of most movies. La Bete 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).
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This book is expanded from my book on Walerian
Borowczyk. The book includes an introduction relating Borowczyk to
many other filmmakers and movies, from the European art movie
tradition, but also the horror genre, and animation; an assessment
the critical reception of Borowczyk, and the current perception of
Borowczyk as a director. There are many illustrations (some of
which are rare). And it contains a useful bibliography and list of
sources.
The aim is to offer an introduction the extraordinary 1975
movie The Beast, in a clearly written in an entertaining style,
which I hope will encourage the reader to seek out some of
Borowczyk's strange, lyrical, hallucinatory and erotic movies. I
hope my book will offer some fresh insights into Borowcyk and The
Beast.
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