Immoral Tales
Obscure Pleasures: The Films of Walerian Borowczyk
April 2 - 9, 2015
New digital restoration
Introduction by author Mike Levy at the 4:30pm screening
Structured in four episodes rolling back into the annals of history, this veritable cavalcade of depravity was a box-office smash in France and spent much of the 1970s embroiled in censorship problems around the world.
New digital restoration
Introduction by author Mike Levy at the 4:30pm screening
Four episodes, each rolling back further into the annals of history, bound only by a maxim by La Rochefoucauld: Love pleases more by the ways in which it shows itself. A veritable cavalcade of depravity, Immoral Tales features cosmic fellatio, transcendental masturbation, blood-drenched lesbianism, and papal incest. A box-office smash in France, the film spent much of the 1970s embroiled in censorship problems around the world. With appearances by Paloma Picasso and a 23-year-old Fabrice Luchini.
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