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Blanche

Blanche. Walerian Borowczyk, 1971.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2014. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.

Summary: No violence to animals.

Bonus Points! …
Michel Simon orders that the entrance to Blanche’s bed chamber be bricked-up because he suspects a lover to be hiding within, and indeed the man is trapped along with Blanche’s pet dove. Later the wall is torn down and the man found in a state of syncope along with the bird. Both are revived, the dove with particular care and affection.

The Arrow Blu-ray also provides Peter Graham’s 11-minute film Gunpoint, edited and produced by Borowczyk, along with Daniel Bird’s very good hour-long 2013 artist bio Obscure Pleasures: A Portrait of Walerian Borowczyk.