Love Express: The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk, Director Kuba Mikurda

How does a filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk go from creating cutting-edge work and competing in Cannes to being labelled a failed erotic filmmaker? The debut documentary feature, from Polish film critic and academic Kuba Mikurda, Love Express, The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk, investigates the work of a film director and animator of unparalleled creativity & sensitivity, revered in the 1970s for creations including Goto, Island of Love, The Beast, & Immoral Tales. The documentary features interviews with his closest collaborators, filmmakers, and leading intellectuals, including Bertrand Bonello, Neil Jordan, Patrice Leconte, Slavoj Ziek, Terry Gilliam, Mark Cousins and the late Andrzej Wajda. Love Express, offers a rare insight into his groundbreaking animated films, short films, and controversial narrative films as it poses questions about artistic freedom. Director Kuba Mikurda joins us to put the life and career of a trailblazing, visionary, now nearly forgotten director Walerian Borowczyk into perspective.

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