![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It still startles even now, after 40 years, with its graphic – while Rabelaisian and altogether absurd – depictions of bestiality and rape, amidst abundant other explicit sexual goings-on between horses first, and later, human beings. 1 At the epicentre of this fall lay La Bête ( The Beast, 1975), long sniffily deemed to have harbinged the slide of a filmmaker of oft-proclaimed genius into a peddler of tawdry soft-core pornography.Ĭertainly, The Beast was massively scandalous, incurring the wrath of censors in many territories. Few more controversial figures have enlivened cinema than the Polish polymath Walerian Borowczyk far fewer still experienced so massive a fall from critical grace. ![]()
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