It's worth seeing because it gets one's juices flowing whether buying into the martyred Reich's theories or not.
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07/09/08
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... [More]
Starring: Milena Dravic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg, Jackie Curtis
Director: Dusan Makavejev
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05/27/08
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01/18/08
The wittiest and possibly truest thing in it is an analysis of Stalinist propaganda films as displaced pornography.
11/06/07
Top Criticndeed, 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.
11/06/07
Top CriticAlthough it seemed like some kind of breakthrough at the time, Makavejev's film isn't improving with age.
08/16/07
Top CriticA truly weird film.
06/28/07
Funny, funny.
09/24/06
No review available.
06/22/05
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.
05/21/05
Top CriticAn insanely brilliant comedy.
10/23/04
Top CriticAudacious Cold War Yugoslavian essay establishes the relationship between sex, power and liberation.
05/24/03
Top CriticThe title is all you need to know that this film is out of the ordinary.
05/24/03
Makavejev's defining work is one of eerily appropriate juxtapositions, fact and fiction, old footage and new
05/24/03
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