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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2014. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
This Arrow re-master first provides the four Tales traditionally included in the feature, all free of violence to animals:
The Tide (La marée), approximately 24 minutes
Therese Philosopher (Thérèse philosophe), approximately 22 minutes
Erzsébet Báthory, approximately 36 minutes
Lucrezia Borgia, approximately 21 minutes
The Arrow release also includes the L'Âge d'or cut which includes an additional story, The Beast of Gévaudan, with images of a dismembered lamb. Valuable bonus features include an entertaining 5-minute introduction to the feature by Borowczyk scholar Daniel Bird, and two versions of Borowczyk’s A Private Collection (1973).