Lulu (1980)

“Walerian, Walerian how did they kept letting you get away with this?” Today I updated my “Pervert Cinema” list with a couple more picks, I had to watch them first over the last few days to make sure they belonged on the list, and my god Borowczyk will never not impress me…

Gwaynee

Walerian Borowczyk' Ophuls movie, but nowhere near as good as that sounds. There are a few moments, especially toward the end, when its emotions run stronger that are quite good, and Boro's staging of the action has always something going for it.

Filipe Furtado

In preparation for my upcoming Cinema Eclectica review of G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box, I watched this Walerian Borowczyk adaptation of Frank Wedekind's source material. It's heavily flawed but offers an interesting example of the lasting influence of Pabst's film. For all…

Graham Williamson

A Pre-WWI erotic/comedic/fatuous romp with lots of Anne Bennent's lovely naked body and little else of interest. Although, it's always a treat to see Udo Kier pop-up at the end of any film to lend his Imprimatur of acceptable underground guignol. Walerian Borowczyk may…

brotherdeacon

I don't necessarily know how well this would work for someone not already familiar with the source material or more leisurely-paced adaptations of it, but I thought this was fantastic; by no means the lesser Borowczyk I'd been given to believe it would be; indeed, quite the…

dublincore

Something between Arthouse and sexploitation. I love the movies from director Walerian Borowczyk (best know for his classic "La Bete").....

G31071984

The polyvalent plight of prostitution, practiced in perpetuity, and in all its variegated forms. Lulu is almost sociopathically ambivalent to the collateral damage wrought by her fickle affections, cuckolding damn near every man with whom she comes into contact (with…

C Bruno

rip Udo :(

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Polacos

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