https://vo.rs/tags/walerian-borowczyk/Latest from the Walerian Borowczyk desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/immoral-tales-borowczyks-anthology-of-art-and-provocation/<p>Walerian Borowczyk is the most respectable disreputable director in European cinema, and <em>Immoral Tales</em> (<em>Contes immoraux</em>, 1973) is the film where the two reputations collide hardest. A Polish animator revered by the art-house intelligentsia — Cocteau-adjacent, feted at festivals, a man who made short films that Terry Gilliam and the Brothers Quay would later cite as scripture — turned to feature-length erotica in the early 1970s and spent the rest of his career being quietly shelved under the wrong heading. <em>Immoral Tales</em> is the pivot. Watch it for the provocation and you will miss the point; watch it for the design and you find one of the most formally exact objects the erotic cinema of the decade produced.</p>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000