Re-engaging with Life: Walerian Borowczyk’s Lost Film, “L’Armoire” Scott Murray February 2007 The Moral of the Auteur Theory The recent release on DVD of the long-lost and unlamented Collections Privées has Murray exploring the labyrinthine world of Walerian Borowczyk’s remarkable episode, “L’Armoire”, based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant.