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Walerian Borowczyk ( September 2 , 1923 - February 3 , 2006 ) was a Polish Film Director . He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988 . BIOGRAPHY Born in Kwilicz, near . In 1959 , he settled in Paris. His early films were Surreal Animations , some only a few seconds long, including several comic Abecedaria . His most acclaimed early films were ''Był sobie raz'' (Once Upon A Time) ( 1957 ) and ''Dom'' (House) ( 1958 , with Jan Lenica ). In 1959 , he worked with Chris Marker for ''Les Astronautes''. Major works of this period include the nightmarish ''Jeux des anges'' ( 1964 ) and the Stop Motion film ''Renaissance'' ( 1963 ), which uses reverse motion to depict various destroyed objects (a prayer book, a stuffed toy, etc.) re-assembling themselves, only to be destroyed again when the last object (a bomb) is complete. In 1967 , he directed his first animated Feature Film , ''Théâtre de Monsieur & Madame Kabal: un film dessiné pour les adultes'' (Mr. and Mrs. Kabal's Theatre). Borowczyk moved into live-action feature film with ''Goto, l'île d'amour'' (Goto, Isle of Love) ( 1968 ) and ''Blanche'' ( 1971 ), both tales of illicit love thwarted by jealous husbands, and both starring his own wife, Ligia Branice. One of his most appreciated films of this period, ''Dzieje grzechu'' (A Story of Sin) ( 1975 ), which was nominated for Palme D'or , is an adaptation of a Polish literary classic by Stefan Żeromski . Like his 1966 short film ''Rosalie'' (a Guy De Maupassant adaptation and a Silver Bear winner), ''Dzieje grzechu'' had successfully rendered the themes of seduction and Infanticide . ''Contes immoraux'' ( Immoral Tales ) ( 1974 ) and his later work, including ''Interno di un convento'' (Behind Convent Walls) ( 1977 ) (inspired by ''Promenades dans Rome'' of Stendhal ) and ''Cérémonie d'amour'' (Rites of Love) ( 1988 ) have been controversial, lauded by some for their unique surrealist vision and derided by others as contentless Pornography . Especially, ''La Bête'' (The Beast) ( 1975 ) (based on the story ''Lokis'' by Prosper Mérimée and originally conceived in 1972 as a film on its own, but then in 1974 as the fifth story in ''Contes immoraux'') was seen by many as a decline in the director's career after ''Dzieje grzechu'', except in France, where it was hailed by prominent critics such as Ado Kyrou . In . Many of Borowczyk's films use historical settings, including ''Ars Amandi: l'arte di amare'' (The Art of Love) ( 1983 ), set in the time of Ovid (and featuring the poet as a character); ''Blanche'', set during the Middle Ages ; and three of the four episodes in ''Contes immoraux'', set respectively in the Nineteenth Century , the Sixteenth Century , and the Borgia papacy. A number of his films (like the "tale" ''La Marée'' (The Tide) in ''Contes immoraux'', the ), and ''Cérémonie d'amour'' were based on stories by André Pieyre De Mandiargues . A less usual product of this cooperation was ''Une collection particulière'' of 1973 , a representation of Borowczyk's collection of pornographic items, with Mandiargues having written (and read) the narration. His 1980 film ''Lulu'' was an onscreen adaptation of the play by Frank Wedekind . Borowczyk was the author of two books; ''Anatomia diabła'' (Anatomy of Devil) ( 1992 ) and ''Moje polskie lata'' (My Polish Years) ( 2002 ). He died of Heart Failure in Paris in 2006. FURTHER READING
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