Two by Walerian Borowczyk

Two by Walerian Borowczyk

2 Episodes

Tantalizingly surreal, dreamily erotic, and wickedly subversive, the films of Polish provocateur Walerian Borowczyk are symbol-laden existential reveries rendered in painterly soft focus. Made in the midst of his most notorious period, the grief-suffused psychosexual drama LA MARGE and the blasphemous nunsploitation shocker BEHIND CONVENT WALLS are fascinating variations on his recurring themes of religious and sexual repression, shot through with the strange beauty and unsettling ambiguity that lend his films their haunting power.

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Two by Walerian Borowczyk

2 Episodes

  • La marge
    1:26:36
    La marge
    Episode 1

    La marge

    Episode 1

    Directed by Walerian Borowczyk • 1976 • France
    Starring Sylvia Kristel, Joe Dallesandro, André Falcon

    One of director Walerian Borowczyk’s most haunting and psychologically complex films, LA MARGE (“The Margin”) stars Joe Dallesandro as Sigismond, a happily married businessman who embarks on an...

  • Behind Convent Walls
    1:35:08
    Behind Convent Walls
    Episode 2

    Behind Convent Walls

    Episode 2

    Directed by Walerian Borowczyk • 1978 • Italy
    Starring Marina Pierro, Ligia Branice, Howard Ross

    Boundary-pushing director Walerian Borowczyk brings his gauzy, symbol-laden eroticism to this typically provocative tale of a convent turned into a hothouse of depraved lust. Pushed to the brink by ...

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