Walérian Borowczyk

Walérian Borowczyk

Film Festival Reports

ROTTERDAM: CRITICS’CHOICE. DOCTEUR JEKILL ET LES FEMMES

By Tara Judah

Rights holders will always play a part in taste making. But, even as they set the goal posts, others, born of passion and determination, defend and strike back. Sometimes they succeed. We owe these people a great debt of thanks because without them we would never see the likes of Walérian Borowczyk’s Docteur Jekyll et les Femmes.

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Rotterdam

ROTTERDAM 2015: CRITICS’CHOICE. DOCTEUR JEKILL ET LES FEMMES

By Tara Judah

Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López cast their critical eyes across Borowczyk’s (wilfully) forgotten surrealist stunner and created their own audio-visual work, one that I like to think of as the illegitimate lovechild of Edward Hyde and Miss Osbourne, post-bathtub transformation.

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