Films by Walerian Borowczyk are showing on Mubi in many countries in the series The Many Sins of Walerian Borowczyk.Ligia Branice is extremely clothed in the three features she filmed with Walerian Borowczyk. Outfitted hat-to-boot in a pale, monochrome riding costume or a black lace Victorian gown, she is lodged in time on Goto, Island of Love (1968). As the titular character in Blanche (1971), Branice is medievally sheathed in a grey houpeland hood so tightly drawn her framed face appears like a floating animation. The flat blackness of the nun’s habit in Behind Convent Walls (1978) abstracts her body completely. The extreme clothedness of Branice fixes a signature Borowczyk dualism, for each film juxtaposes moments—in flight, in ecstasy, in exception—where she is notably unclothed. I was instantly captivated by Branice’s enigmatic screen quality: a Garbo, ever more matte. The actress’s visage, rendered in narratives of entrapment and seized on camera,...