Walerian Borowczyk

<p><strong>WALERIAN BOROWCZYK </strong></p><p></p><p>by JEREMY MARK ROBINSON</p><p></p><p>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 films create their own space with imagery sounds and music of a really exceptional power.</p><p>Jeremy Robinson discusses each Borowczyk film in detail sometimes going through scenes shot by shot.</p><p>Fully illustrated with stills from Borowczyk's movies and from the history of erotica a bibliography filmography and notes. 252pp.</p><p>The text has been updated for this new (2nd) edition. www.crmoon.com EXTRACT FROM THE INTRODUCTION</p><p>Goto: Island of Love was the first Walerian Borowczyk film that made a big impression on audiences and critics winning a number of prizes. I first saw Goto: Island of Love in 1982 at Bournemouth Film School when we watched 16mm prints as part of our film history programme. You could see there was an astonishing vision at work here. I remember above all the creation of a visceral idiosyncratic and original world.</p><p>If I had to single out some films I'd cite Blanche Immoral Tales Behind Convent Walls The Beast and Goto: Island of Love for their painterly sense the use of props and costumes and the incredible attention to detail. Very stylish mysterious poetic. Not forgetting the acute awareness of the history of religion and literature. Borowczyk produced some of the most memorable images in European cinema the equal of Ingmar Bergman Sergei Paradjanov or Andrei Tarkovsky.</p><p></p>