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1048:...Borowczyk immediately thought of me. Not daring to force Mandiargues' hand, he asked him who he saw in the role. The writer said: "One person: Marina Pierro." It was proof that I couldn't escape this movie. The story has interested me, moved me, fascinated me by its strangeness and poetry... is naturally in perfect harmony with the theatrical and realist universe of Mandiargues, all through eroticism, strange rituals, violent images... Everything happens in five hours, the time of a beautiful afternoon of spring in Paris. Miriam, my character, halfway between the comedian and the courtesan, leads a man, Hugo Arnold, played by Mathieu Carriere, in his fantasies. It begins by being completely submissive to him. This is what she asks, demands: to suffer all her whims. But all of a sudden, it changes completely. She's the one who becomes a dominatrix. She breaks him, radically, chases him away and summons him to his own destruction. 711:

sensitive, restless, just like me... The scene of the transformation in the bathtub, both of Jekyll and Fanny, was certainly one of the most important. Everything is in Fanny's gaze – the discovery of another Henry, not the one she knows; her repulsion for the new one, Mr Hyde; her attraction and final decision to get into the bathtub and be part of that world that she sees as dark and irrational, and that her gaze has been absorbed, taking possession of her mind first, and then through the immersion of her body into...this earth-coloured liquid, like a vortex that drags her into an abyss from which she might not return.

357:... Then he asked me to wear a nun's veil while he continued walking around me. And then suddenly he said, “Do you know, you are incredibly photogenic?” I immediately said, “Yes, I know.” He laughed and told me that I would play Sister Veronica. Maybe it was at that moment that I became his muse. Of course I wasn't aware of it because things were happening so fast that it was hard for me to stop and think for a second. Only afterwards did I think back to that feeling, like an electric shock – a wave that connected us in a very particular way, creating an artistic collaboration that lasted around ten years over six films. 849:

at her and my tears started flowing. I really got on very well with her. She was very maternal with me. When I totally cramped up during the last scene...she was the one who started massaging my arms and legs. I looked up at her. Her throat was ripped open. The more I looked the more I froze. I had hurt her. I had hurt nearly everyone...by slashing at their throats with my long nails. I had ripped their mouths. And I had bitten Marina. I had bitten her throat. I didn't know how long my false nails were, you know. I had to bite off her thumb but the rubber was like a chewing gum...

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complex, as it entailed maximum attention and maximum speed of execution. To me, this was a revelation because that method perfectly matched me instinct to express myself in the immediacy of a moment. The second aspect was also important – the awareness that working in film was full of never-ending possibilities of expression. Being on the set of a film by Walerian was not only fascinating but truly educational, just like a film school.

940:...I like that a lot. Borowczyk's films are actually very light-hearted. But there is always this sense of irony that adds a certain weight to them. I think that's the most important thing about his films. Not the erotic aspects - although of course they're there and are very beautiful. Lots of people don't see this side of his films, it's true, but that's what makes it fun to work with him and why I continue to do so. 1120:. A jealous, middle-aged husband (Witold Heretynski) disguises himself as a priest, and hears his wife Bianca's confession: she tells him she loves a priest who comes to her every night. The husband posts himself at the door to watch for the priest; meanwhile, Bianca takes advantage of a gap in the wall to bring her young lover - the next-door neighbor, who is not a priest - into her house for erotic encounters. 341:. Our first meeting was...quite surreal. He was speaking Italian, I was speaking French. He was walking around me while asking me questions. For example, if I had attended a theatre academy. I said I had been on set with Visconti for one month in my very first film role, and that was it. And he said, “That's more than enough.” Then we talked almost entirely about painting, about the light in paintings by 793:. However, the film did not receive a theatrical release in America and it ran in Great Britain for only one week, without a press screening. The film was relatively obscure in the years following its release but it has enjoyed increasing critical esteem as part of renewed interest in the works of Walerian Borowczyk, and is often cited as one of the director's best films. A restored version of 208:...I consider myself an actress , not only because I like cinema more, but also because, despite being 18, I already have some cinematic experience behind me... was always very kind to me. When I was introduced to him I had an insane fear of his judgment. He looked at me and said, "You're all mouth." He said something curious. I laughed. I liked him and so I had the part of 827:) as Hélène, the friend and blood-sister of the titular character (played by Françoise Blanchard). Blanchard's character, Catherine Valmont, is a recently deceased heiress who returns from the dead with an insatiable appetite for human blood; Pierro's character Hélène, initially repulsed, decides to procure human victims for her undead friend. 778:, is not only ridiculous, but also misleading, and psychologically puerile, compared to the complexity and depth found both in the book and within the concept of the film. So Walerian was quite angry. He knew that his precedent would be followed by others, which did happen regularly. In Italy, for example, for example, the title was changed to 504:, for which he had already written two episodes. He said he'd look around and find a character for me to play, taken from the history of Italian art. He chose Raphael's muse, the “Fornarina,” also as a homage to Italian art and the Renaissance artists which he loved so much. So the press started to liken Raphael's muse to Borowczyk's muse. 485:). After Raphael pierces his eye with a paint-brush, Bini sets out to seduce Margherita and, tempting her with jewels, have her poison Raphael with drugged cherries. Ultimately, Margherita takes advantage of Bini and Raphael's sexual obsession with her, outwitting both men before returning with Bini's jewels to her true love, Tomaso. 569:, and the camera of Borowczyk pays a passionate homage... The other parts of the triptych are unfortunately less convincing... Capable of the best, Borowczyk is not always immune to mediocrity. After Marina Pierro, the heroines seem bland and the evil is not as good. Borowczyk was kind enough to serve us the best as a starter. 665:

discovered the existence of Fanny Osbourne, the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, a very adventurous and independent woman for the time. Borowczyk was enthusiastic about the idea of mixing cards, just like...a magician, and introducing this real figure into the fiction. So that's how the character of Miss Osbourne was born.

481:). Taking place in early 16th century Rome, "Margherita" begins with Raphael (François Guétary) spying on Margherita - a baker's daughter - making love with her fiancé, Tomaso (Gérard Falconetti). While posing for a painting at Raphael's studio, Margherita is spied upon by the wealthy banker, Bernardo Bini ( 616:). She manipulates men while allowing them to think of her as a victim, her murderous revenge and theft merely the acts of a woman reasserting control over her own destiny (and image)… In a world of marginalized women, she has used a natural asset (her sex) to attain what is otherwise denied her (wealth). 848:

I got on very well with Marina Pierro. I really love the style of these grand Italian actresses: 'Caterina, you can't work today. You're ill.' 'Yes I can, Marina.' There was a scene where Jean didn't want the living dead girl to cry. Marina went: 'Caterina, I can't believe you're dead.' I looked up

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It's hard to ignore, not least because it's a matter of undeniable fact, that all films fundamentally represent the viewpoint of a middle-aged heterosexual man. You can certainly defend them against charges of misogyny by pointing out that the female characters in his later films are generally far

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mad. At various points throughout the film she engages in a variety of yoga exercises. Pierro had practiced these Eastern arts, and she found it strange mixing this aspect of the character with her real life. It was sometimes hard to maintain the balance, to see where the script ended and she began.

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Marina Pierro is an extraordinary actress who combines a sullen sensuality with an ethereal, almost nervous intensity. Her white skin, jet black hair and hypnotic eyes have made her an unforgettable presence in five films from the Polish born master of erotic cinema, Walerian Borowczyk. Yet to the

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Walerian Borowczyk is very demanding but we know each other well. There may be a bond between us, he always offers me something new. I trust him completely. I know the film will exist. A Borowczyk film is so many things... He arrives on set and the film is already in his head. We don't waste time.

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was a difficult one on several counts. For a start it was her first really substantial role and she was playing the role in French. But even more confusing was that it combined certain aspects of her real life with fiction. In the film Pierro plays the part of a nun, Sister Veronique, who is going

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There is always a moment when something reaches its peak, and the gaze turns elsewhere. I have never understood the profession of actress as a series of sterile apparitions, as is increasingly the case. I don't feel I have given up acting, I simply enhanced my directorial point of view more but I

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three decades before. The film was co-directed by Pierro's son, professional artist Alessio Pierro, who was also the cinematographer of all three of Pierro's short films. In his official website, Alessio Pierro describes Borowczyk as "an exceptional teacher" who was important for his formation by

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Udo Kier was a perfect Jekyll, determined and fragile. Rigid, but outside the box. The complete opposite of Mr Hyde, who is played by Gérard Zalcberg, whose face was a merciless, relentless mask – a disturbing, duplicitous identity. There was great chemistry between Udo and I. He was instinctive,

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I am timid as all actors. No more or less. However, I think you have to push yourself - put yourself in different situations to test your own limits. But I still find these scenes a little embarrassing... There are definitely some things I have in common with this character. She wants some of the

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was for me fundamental and illuminating, in two respects. First of all, as an actress. Walerian left some freedom to the actors, of course within the range of the character, and he accepted suggestions. At the same time, he expected the actor to guess what he wanted, and this was undoubtedly more

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We cannot but praise this great filmmaker, who lives by and for the exaltation of the female body, for tightening the union of Jekyll and Hyde, and giving the dual character invented by Stevenson a new double: a bride, a lover, a devilish sister, a carnal reflection, wonderfully embodied by the

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had an offer to direct a film about Dr Jekyll. He liked the idea, but he didn't want to direct a remake, and he noticed that there wasn't a female character in the book. So he told me that he'd think about it and if he happened to find it interesting, he would do it. Actually, that was how he

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Walerian was an extremely polite person, yet not quite formal... He had a refined sensitivity. He was a non-conformist by nature, I'd say. He also had this particular gift of finding unpredictable, unheard-of association between things that were apparently disparate. In the language of

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The victory of a powerless woman from the working class is absolute... Margherita has succeeded because men thought she was their pawn. She was lured away from her lover and her social class, and then preyed upon by men who believed wealth can and does control everything. Given the

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Meeting Pierro had a significant effect on Borowczyk's career as well. Borowczyk cast Pierro in almost all of his subsequent feature films, and it has been noted that Pierro effectively supplanted Borowczyk's wife Ligia Branice, who had appeared in her husband's

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studios in Rome: "Visconti's assistant, a friend, introduced me to his boss who was looking for a young girl to play a lady companion, a secondary role, but of great importance to me. On a professional and private level, Visconti was unrivalled in all fields."

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marks the final appearance of Ligia - it's as if two of muses are passing each other on the screen. Under Pierro's influence, women in films change - the ethereal, passive, luminous women played by Ligia become the strong, active, and carnal ones played by

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starring Pierro. According to Pierro, Borowczyk was passionate about the project after he discovered a resemblance between Pierro and a bust of the queen. Borowczyk delivered a press conference on the subject of the film and scouted filming locations in

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where her family had moved a few years after Pierro's birth. At an early age, Pierro showed talent in drawing and painting, which led her to artistic studies. Pierro followed photography and theatre courses; studied French; had interests in

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He spent a lot of time wandering around with a bottle - but he always managed to hide it when he was on set. I was dazzled by him, his talent. Some people have a touch of magic about them. And he was one of them. Truly one of the great

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The main character has the same name (which is different from the one in Boccaccio) and an older, jealous husband, who imprisons her in a room, as well as a lover who breaks through the wall to get to her. In a sharp contrast to

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represented the only occasion in which Pierro played a modern-day character for the entirety of a Borowczyk film; her previous roles for the director were all set in historical periods of the past, excepting the conclusion of

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stronger-willed and far more in control of their sexual pleasure than was the norm in 1970s cinema, something that became especially clear when began a decade-plus collaboration with the Italian actress Marina Pierro.

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using a computer... The text has not been completely recomposed, bad one thing is sure... Nefertiti was not Egyptian. Walerian Borowczyk imagined that she had been abducted in England and snatched from her fiancé, a

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on DVD, an edition containing two versions of the film: the 97-minute "complete" version released to theatres, and Borowczyk's 87-minute director's cut. (Both cuts are included in the film's 2021 Blu-ray release by

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The filming will take place in Egypt and Tunisia, at the beginning of next year... To prepare this new film by Walerian Borowczyk, I have already read several books. Nefertiti was not only the beautiful spouse of

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He noticed a picture of me in the actors’ yearbook and he asked to meet me. I was surprised that he wanted to see me. This was the director everyone was talking about for the scandal caused by his films, such as

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Italian actress Marina Pierro...starred in most of Borowczyk's late features and became a muse to supplant Branice. While the latter usually played a precious flower in danger of being trampled, Pierro's proud

1282:(2018), which ignores the 1977-1985 period of Borowczyk's career and the films therein (most of which Borowczyk made with Pierro). Nevertheless, Pierro has remained a staunch defender of Borowczyk, stating, 844:, and a friend suggested Pierro for the part. Rollin later stated that Pierro had a fiery temperament that was good for her character. Interviewed in 2002, Pierro's co-star Françoise Blanchard recalled, 1697:

newspaper includes an interview with Pierro ("La strana fascinazione di un corpo surrealista" by Cecilia Ermini) with a brief biographical section stating Pierro was born in 1960. In the 2015 book

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However, Borowczyk and Pierro returned to a period setting for what turned out to be their final collaboration: "Un traitement justifié", an episode of the French-German erotic television series

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Walerian Borowczyk imagines in his own fashion the death of Raphael in the features of his model Margherita Luti... It must be said that if death has the eyes of Marina Pierro (already seen in

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magazine features an article on Pierro ("L'amorale della favola" by Monica Carovani) which states the actress is 28 years old, making 1960 her year of birth. The 4 May 2014 issue of Italy's

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that existed at the time, had no reason to feel other than confident. But they underestimated Margherita, a scheming, resourceful woman in the grand tradition of the two Lucrezias (

1075:). The film was not as successful in France; Borowczyk accused the film's executive producer, Alain Sarde, of promoting the film insufficiently after Borowczyk did not deliver the 660:) and essentially an original character on the part of Borowczyk and Pierro. According to Pierro, it was the character of Fanny Osbourne that prompted Borowczyk to make the film: 1110:). Filmed in 1989 and first broadcast on 3 February 1990, Pierro plays an adulterous wife, Bianca (or Blanche) in an episode adapted from the fifth tale of the seventh night in 864:

was relatively successful and won a prize at Italy's Fanta Film Festival the year after its release in 1982. Also in 1982, Pierro appeared in the Italian television miniseries

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The film's extreme violence ensured it would run afoul of the censors of the time, but Pierro - a fan of horror films - believes the violence was justified by the narrative:

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Michael Brooke, a writer specializing in European cinema and an enthusiast of Borowczyk's films, has suggested the importance of Pierro in evaluating the director's work:

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screened out of competition at Le Festival international du film fantastique d'Avoriaz in 1988 and enjoyed commercial success in Italy, where it was released as

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I think that Borowczyk's work doesn't need “re-evaluation.” His work was widely reviewed and admired in its deepest essence. It is enough to think of what

1241:) was published by Cupressus. The book is a selection of poems written by Pierro between 1976 and 2009. Pierro has stated she is writing a book titled 230:

have generally influenced me. It's a passion I take with me from art in high school. It is no coincidence that one of my dreams would be to work with

1230:; another feature of the release is a video interview Marina Pierro recorded in 2015, recounting her decade-long collaboration with Borowczyk. 1189:(2016, also writer/producer). Pierro said, "Walerian knew that one day I would move on to directing, at least I hoped, and he encouraged me." 920:

The film had a troubled production involving conflict between Borowczyk and the film's producers: a misunderstanding led to the addition of

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painters, he found in her "the classic Italian figure." Pierro was greatly affected by the experience of meeting Borowczyk and appearing in

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would be ready to come back at any time for a real film and with directors who make their cinema a personal and authentically-felt vision,

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is one of Borowczyk's best films; upon the film's UK home video release in 1993, Pierro pointed out how its humour has been overlooked:

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in September 1983, but going into general release the following month, the film was a commercial flop. Pierro, however, has contended

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good things in life and so she acts with a sort of mixture of naivete and deceit in order to get them. But I'm not a femme fatale.

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gives women a true sensuality, at least equal to that of men... Macarius symbolizes moral order and I symbolize free love."

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is a 17-minute homage to Walerian Borowczyk that features allusions to his films as well as an electroacoustic music by

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Kuba Mikurda wrote that "Un traitement justifié" is "effectively last film" and likened it to the director's 1971 film

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Pierro's appearances on screen have been fleeting since the late 1980s, but she has directed three short films since -

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Fanny Osbourne is trapped in an impossible situation. She is reacting against the whole period in which she lives, the

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is the captivating beauty of actress Marina Pierro; no stranger to French genre films she also starred in

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The Neferiti project was aborted during pre-production, and Pierro took some time off films to appear in

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by André Pieyre de Mandiargues (La Vue, 1981), reproduced in the liner notes of the blu-ray release of

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that adorned a temple that was dedicated to her and which unfortunately fell off were reconstructed by

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features, confident pose, and well-rounded body signified a perfect femininity for the Polish director.

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was shot in four weeks, a shorter time than had been planned, owing to budgetary issues. Swiss actor

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in Rome. She also spent time writing pieces for theatre as well as a screenplay loosely inspired by

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during post-production, which caused trouble with the Italian film censors. Advance publicity for

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Evidently was happy with me because he said he would have entrusted me with an important part in

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drew mixed to negative reviews, although Marina Pierro's performance received praise. Reviewing

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exploring various techniques of cinema and painting with him. Marina Pierro's 9-minute film

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as "a surreal masterpiece and possibly Borowczyk's finest work" in the online film journal

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was adapted to film by Borowczyk in 1976, and who provided the foreword to the 1981 book

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was also screening. The following year, Rollin was looking to cast the role of Hélène in

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Despite her prominence in Borowczyk's filmography, Pierro is not seen or referred to in

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said about his cinema, coining his famous definition of “the striking imagination.”

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in 1981 and included a preface by Borowczyk's friend, the French Surrealist writer

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In 1987, Pierro appeared in an episode of Carlo Di Carlo's television miniseries

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Pierro's fourth film with Borowczyk was the 1983 Italian/French co-production

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won Walerian Borowczyk the award for "Best Feature Film Director" at the 1981

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either naked or dressed in flimsy, transparent veils, and engaged in graphic

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and began a career in modelling, doing fashion spreads for magazines such as

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Of her castmates and experience of the film shoot, Pierro herself recalled,

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Pierro subsequently appeared on the cover of the 9 December 1975 issue of

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of Italy. Various sources give 1956 and 1960 as the year of her birth.

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Pierro had met Rollin briefly at the 1981 Sitges Film Festival, where

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It's great for an actress because, in this way, you are more natural.”

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is a 25-minute film starring Pierro and is set in the library of the

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strengthened the public association between herself and Borowczyk:

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Working again with Borowczyk, Pierro played the Renaissance artist

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before seducing and torturing him. The film is based on the novel

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outwitting the men around her, Pierro spends most of her time in

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cinema" and she has referred to herself as Walerian Borowczyk's

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Similarly, Kuba Mikurda (director of the 2018 documentary film

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