WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Milena Dravic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg, Jackie Curtis
DVD Info
Release:
Jun 19, 2007
DVD Features:
- Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
- Mono 1.0 - Serbo-Croatian
- Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - Raymond Durgnat
- Interviews - Dusan Makavejev - Director
- Short Film - HOLE IN THE SOUL (1994)
Text/Photo Galleries:
- Essay - Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Reviews
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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