It's worth seeing because it gets one's juices flowing whether buying into the martyred Reich's theories or not.
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:11
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Makavejev deftly juxtaposes the story of a sexual tryst between a liberated woman and a repressed Soviet figure skater with a politicized exploration of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich's controversial... Makavejev deftly juxtaposes the story of a sexual tryst between a liberated woman and a repressed Soviet figure skater with a politicized exploration of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich's controversial theories. "WR" can be taken to stand for either the analyst's initials or for World Revolution. [More]
Starring: Milena Dravic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg, Jackie Curtis
Starring: Milena Dravic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg, Jackie Curtis
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Screenwriter: Dusan Makavejev
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Reviews for WR: Mysteries of the Organism
The wittiest and possibly truest thing in it is an analysis of Stalinist propaganda films as displaced pornography.
ndeed, it's hard to think of a headier mix of fiction and nonfiction, or sex and politics, than this brilliant 1971 Yugoslav feature by Dusan Makavejev.
Although it seemed like some kind of breakthrough at the time, Makavejev's film isn't improving with age.
It is no wonder then that the film, which begins by proclaiming that life should be joyful, turns out to be one of the gloomiest of recent memory.
Audacious Cold War Yugoslavian essay establishes the relationship between sex, power and liberation.
The title is all you need to know that this film is out of the ordinary.
Makavejev's defining work is one of eerily appropriate juxtapositions, fact and fiction, old footage and new
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