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Immoral Tales (original French title Contes immoraux) is a 1974 film directed by Walerian Borowczyk, produced by Anatole Dauman and written by André Pieyre de Mandiargues.
The film Immoral Tales is composed of four stories set in four different epochs. Each story starts with a written prologue. The film was lauded by some for its unique surrealist vision and derided by others as pornography. However, in contrast to the aesthetics of modern visual pornography, its porno chic imagery is found disturbing, rather than amusing, by many viewers. The film is in French, also with Hungarian and Italian dialogues.
Immoral Tales was conceived in 1973 as a film of six stories. The other two were also filmed, but Une collection particulière was released as a separate short, and the footage of La véritable historie de la bête du Gévaudan became the dream sequence of the feature-length The Beast (1975).
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