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  • 2020
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 12 m
  • 2020
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Love Express: The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

Summary How does a filmmaker go from creating cutting-edge work and competing in Cannes to being labelled a failed erotic filmmaker? The debut documentary feature from Polish critic and academic Kuba Mikurda investigates the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled creativity & sensitivity, revered in the 1970s for creations includ...

Directed By: Kuba Mikurda

Written By: Marcin Kubawski, Kuba Mikurda

  • 2020
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 12 m
  • 2020
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 12 m

Love Express: The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

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Summary How does a filmmaker go from creating cutting-edge work and competing in Cannes to being labelled a failed erotic filmmaker? The debut documentary feature from Polish critic and academic Kuba Mikurda investigates the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled creativity & sensitivity, revered in the 1970s for creations includ...

Directed By: Kuba Mikurda

Written By: Marcin Kubawski, Kuba Mikurda

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Aug 19, 2020
As Borowczyk’s career was hijacked by his own infamy, documentarian Kuba Mikurda’s “Love Express” camera captures gestures, the waving about of hands by the various interview subjects as they try to rationalize both his path and his ensuing fate.
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Aug 19, 2020
Properly analyzing what made "Boro" tick, and explaining how one of most acclaimed directors of his generation ended up fizzling out so messily in the 1980s, ultimately proves beyond Mikurda and collaborators.
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Production Company CoLab Pictures, HBO Europe, Maagiline Masin, Colab Pictures, Instytut im. Adama Mickiewicza, Otter Films
Release Date Aug 21, 2020
Duration 1 h 12 m
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Transatlantyk Festival: Lodz
• 1 Nomination

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