THE STORY OF SIN

In his NEW YORK TIMES obit, surrealist icon Walerian Borowcyzk was described by critics “as a genius, a pornographer, and a genius who also happened to be a pornographer.” Over a 40-year career, Borowczyk specialized in experimental animated shorts and highly sexualized portraits of Euro decadence. Terry Gilliam, Jan Svankmajer, and the Brothers Quay have all expressed admiration for this unique filmmaker. Released the same year as his arthouse monster movie THE BEAST, THE STORY OF SIN follows a young woman as she's thrown into chaos after her parents take in a handsome lodger. After a torrid affair, the lodger travels to Rome to seek a divorce from his estranged wife. Unable to live apart from her beloved, our heroine leaves home only to fall prey to the infatuations and lusts of noble admirers, unsavory criminals, and utopian do-gooders.