PLOT: Lucy, an impressionable young heiress, comes to France for an arranged marriage with Mathurin de l’Esperance, the socially awkward scion of an aristocratic family. For the exotic and the erotic-and the downright weird-had always been part of Borowczyk’s cinematic universe.”–Cathal Tohill & Pete Tombs, “ Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies, 1956-1984”įEATURING: Guy Tréjan, Lisbeth Hummel, Pierre Benedetti, Sirpa Lane Or perhaps, if you looked hard enough, there was. “There was nothing in his previous output-a respectable career that stretched back to the late 1940s-to prepare the viewer for this terrible outrage.