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Walerian Borowczyk
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Director, Screenwriter, Animator, Editor Born: October 21, 1923 in Kwilcz, Poland Death: February 3, 2006 Biography:Polish animator-cum-soft porn director Walerian Borowczyk resuscitates a question posed by a key New York film critic in the early '70s: "If an acclaimed director such as Jean Vigo or Andrzej Munk dies young, is the loss as great when a four-star filmmaker goes on to helm some of the world's poorest motion pictures?" Suffice it to say that rarely has the cinematic community seen a bona fide artist launch his career with such brilliant promise and tumble as dramatically off the slopes as Walerian Borowczyk did during his last few decades, leading one to wonder if, perhaps, he shouldn't have bowed out of the cinematic realm years prior in life.
The Kwilcz-born surrealist catalyzed his career in the '50s and '60s, with subtly erotic, witty, and subversive animated shorts, their style utterly unlike anything seen up through that time. Highlights include Les Astronautes, a satire of space exploration... Full Biography
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