Goto iii pierre brasseur is the pompous dictator who allows children to witness public execution and has criminals fight it out in a theater to resolve their differences. Daniel bird, kat ellinger polish month continues with a look at walerian borowczyk s goto, island of love. Island of love on dvd 881190003794 from cult epics. Goto, island of love 1969 polish month continues with a look at walerian borowczyks goto, island of love. Films directed by walerian borowczyk list challenges. Having begun his film career in 1946, borowczyk made a number of animated, live action, and mixed media shorts before exclusively remaining in the feature film field, and the dvd includes one of his awardwinning shorts, made in collaboration with chris marker who also designed the striking beast booklet, reproduced in cult epics limited 3.
France 1973 une collection particuliere short documentary. Staring jeanpierre andreani, ginette leclerc, ligia branice and pierre brasseur. Arrow films is a very interesting uk distributor of classic, horror, and cult films. His first liveaction film, goto, isle of love, employed similar tactics to his handdrawn experiments. Island of love approved 1h 41min comedy 25 october 1963 finland a con man named steve blair robert preston, enlists an outofwork, drunk writer paul ferris tony randall to write a fictitious screenplay he hopes will be funded by a rich, but. Goto, isle of love goto, isle of love is a tale of infidelity, revenge, and repressed love, both chaste and illicit, starring pierre brasseur port of shadows as goto iii, an unstable and jealous dictator married to the beautiful glossia ligia branice, blanche. With robert preston, tony randall, giorgia moll, walter matthau. Goto, island of love is a 1968 french drama film directed by walerian borowczyk and starring pierre brasseur. His debut full length live action film goto, isle of love 1968 would be. Like goto, its set in a fortress only in this case a medieval one ruled over by an ogreish older male. Walerian borowczyk collection the beast goto island of love. Goto, isle of love aka goto, lile damour aka goto, island of love blu ray 1968 borowczyks first liveaction feature. Walerian borowczyks heroines of desire senses of cinema.
A pompous dictator pierre brasseur lets criminals fight in the streets. Originally banned in communist poland and francos spain, goto, island of love features bizarre sights, poetic flashes of colour and the stunning deployment of handels organ concertos. Goto, lile damour, goto, island of love 1969 rotten tomatoes. Pierre brasseur, ligia branice, guy saintjean, jeanpierre andreani, ginette leclerc. Walerian borowczyk 21 october 1923 3 february 2006 was an internationally known polish film director described by film critics as a genius who also happened to be a pornographer. Mar 14, 2006 the box otherwise contains borowczyks first feature, goto, island of love 1969, an absurd and freeassociative parable starring the ethereal mrs. The walerian borowczyk collection goto, isle of love.
After earning a name for himself with kabal, borowczyk embarked on his first liveaction film with the peculiar and fascinating goto, island of love in 1968. It is, after all, the film that launched this restoration project in the first place and is a firm favourite with those who already know and. Walerian borowczyk collection the beast goto island of love love rites. The walerian borowczyk collection goto, isle of love blu. Again, ligia branice plays the ogres wife, who, as before, has to. A company called alpha blue archives, which specializes in vintage adult movies, will be releasing four outofprint ed woodscripted adult films on dvd on september 1, 2014. Rent goto, island of love aka goto, lile damour 1969. The opening scene is brilliantly filmed and can be seen as a stage with its characters moving across it, subordinated to it. The famed polishborn director first made his mark on the film industry as an acclaimed animator.
Released in that magical year of 1969, the film tells the tale of a thief guy saintjean on the island of goto which is ruled over by governor goto iii pierre brasseur. This unusual comic tragedy is filmed both in color and blackandwhite and concerns the residents of the mythical island of goto. A simpleton thief on goto, an isolated island ruled by a barbaric dictator, climbs ranks from criminal to flycatcher, dogkeeper and boot polisher, while himself and other islanders get caught up in throes of temptation, which threatens to change the fate of the island forever. The box otherwise contains borowczyks first feature, goto, island of love 1969, an absurd and freeassociative parable starring the ethereal mrs. Though anyone acquainted with his later work might expect a combination of elegance and naughtiness, the film is quite a bit stranger than that, mixing political commentary with whimsical. Cinephiles asylum is a youtube channel for complete arthouse films subtitled by various langauges with a. Goto, isle of love 1969 already conjures images simply from its title though its. After being pitted in armed combat and somehow surviving he is put in charge of the governors dogs. A simpleton thief on goto, an isolated island ruled by a barbaric dictator, climbs ranks from criminal to flycatcher. Goto, lile damour, goto, island of love 1969 rotten. Goto, lile damour goto, island of love 1969 walerian borowczyk july 27, 2015 walerian borowczyks second feature was just as original as his first. Goto, island of love 1969 09011969 fr drama 1h 33m user score. Its a series they are calling the lost sex films of ed wood.
Goto, lile damour goto, island of love 1969 walerian. A con man named steve blair robert preston, enlists an outofwork, drunk writer paul ferris tony randall to write a fictitious screenplay he hopes will be funded by a rich, but unethical producer who also happens to be a mobster named tony dallas walter matthau. Expand your home video library from a huge online selection of movies at. His dream is to possess glossia, a stifled beauty trapped in a loveless marriage to a melancholic dictator. Made available earlier this month as both a standalone release in arrow films walerian borowczyk collection and part of their fivedisc borowczyk box set camera obscura, one need only look at goto, isle of loves relatively minuscule amount of user ratings on imdb just 3 at the time of writing to realise how obscure an interest the directors first liveaction feature film is.
All four of these movies seem to have been released originally in 1971. Goto is a small island that used to be larger and more populated until an earthquake disaster in the late eighteenhundreds saw to it that most of the place was destroyed, along with many of the inhabitants, almost all of them in fact. Much of the film looks and feels like a stage with actors becoming part of what is an incredible mise en scene. Goto, lile damour is a 1968 french drama film directed by walerian borowczyk and starring pierre brasseur cast. Unbeknownst to goto iii, glossia is carrying on an affair with one of his guards, the handsome lieutenant gono jeanpierre.
Bunuelian fun in a sad grey world poisoned by lust and ignorance, viewed through binoculars the wrong way around. As anyone with even a passing interest in either the films of walerian borowczyk or the fine work being done over at arrow films will be aware, it was the desire to so see goto isle of love restored to its former glory that was the driving force behind the kickstarter campaign that raised enough money to restore not just this film, but the shorts that make arrows walerian borowczyk short. Walerian borowczyk began his film career design posters for films, then started making short animated films in the late 1950s. Check member ratings of goto, island of love aka goto, lile damour movie. In an isolated community on a mythical island, a pompous dictator holds public executions and lets criminals fight in the streets. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. New digital restorationintroduction by author abel segretin at the 7. Jul, 2017 an unruly classroom is the seat of brainwashing, the incubation chamber for the narrative about the island having been frozen in time after a devastating earthquake in 1887 htbag eh. Moving to france in the early 1960s, he gained a reputation as a leading animator before switching to liveaction features, which became increasingly more controversial due to their explicitly erotic and sensational content. I remember the strange atmosphere of this film with the concerto of haendel playing on glossias tearful face. Goto, lile damour is a 1968 french drama film directed by walerian borowczyk and starring pierre brasseur.
Goto, island of love 1969 film complete walerian borowczyk duration. Goto, isle of love aka goto, lile damour aka goto, island. Goto, island of love 1969 in an isolated community, a pompous dictator pierre brasseur holds public executions and lets criminals fight in the streets. Goto, isle of love bluray ligia branice actor, walerian borowczyk director rated. Goto, lile damour goto, island of love walerian borowczyk 1969 93 min dont let the name fool youthats strictly to attract tourists. Goto, island of love, borowczyks hypnotic first foray into liveaction. In this film he plays with the audience in many ways. With pierre brasseur, ligia branice, jeanpierre andreani, ginette leclerc. There are some flashes of colour that interrupt the greyscale consistency imaginative glimpses of a world beyond goto, the tinpot island dictatorship. Get 50% off hundreds of family movies when you preorder on fandangonow today.
Goto iii pierre brasseur is the pompous dictator who allows children to witness public execution and has criminals fight it out in a. And yet this unhinged quality lends the film a certain raw intensity that makes it especially chilling when the title characters start to earn their moniker. Overview of goto, island of love, 1969, directed by walerian borowczyk, with pierre brasseur, ligia branice, ginette leclerc, at turner classic movies. Rent goto, island of love aka goto, lile damour 1969 film for free as part of our trial offer. Ligia branice, michel simon, georges wilson director. I discovered walerian borowczyks goto, island of love in the seventies at my high schools film club between an ingmar berman and a stanley kubrick movie.
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