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Marina Pierro

“I was wondering why [Walerian Borowczyk] looked for me and after a while he told me that, as a fan of Italian renaissance painters, he found in me the classic Italian figure.”

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    WALERIAN BOROWCZYK France, 1987

    Walerian Borowczyk’s final film is relatively more sexually restrained than the dizzyingly pink heights of his late 60s and 70s cinema. Had he mellowed with age? Nonetheless, Boro’s adaptation of André Pieyre de Mandiargues’s novel still plunges into contemporary sexual mores with gleeful abandon.

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