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Bookmark this pageW.R. – Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Director: Dusan Makavejev
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From Time Out Film Guide
Although it seemed like some kind of breakthrough at the time, Makavejev's film isn't improving with age. Its comedy rests flimsily on cross-cutting between two distinct sets of material: the American footage starts with the life and ideas of Wilhelm Reich, and goes on to explore some of the more bizarre fringes of 'permissive' America; the Yugoslav footage comprises a risible hymn to Stalin from the archives, plus a satirical account of an affair between a liberated Yugoslav woman and a repressed Russian skating star. The Reichian notion that everybody needs better orgasms has a certain credibility; but neither Tuli Kupferberg prowling New York as a 'hippie guerilla', nor the juxtaposition of Stalin with Jim Buckley's erect cock, says anything interesting about sex, power politics, or the relation between them.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Cast: Milena Dravic, Jagoda Kaloper, Zoran Radmilovic, Tuli Kupferberg, Jackie Curtis, Betty Dodson, Jim Buckley, Nancy Godfrey full cast
Duration: 86 mins
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