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WR: Mysteries of the Organism
The film they said we would never see...
The film they said we would never see...
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy - 1971
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
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What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.
Director:
,
Dušan Makavejev
Cast:
,
Milena Dravić
,
Dušan Puh
,
Jagoda Kaloper
,
Tuli Kupferberg
,
Zoran Radmilović
,
Jackie Curtis
,
Mikhail Gelovani
,
Wilhelm Reich
,
Milan Jelić

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Rated:
NOT RATED
Runtime:
84 min
Release date:
10 May 1971
Country:
DE, YU
Languages:
Croatian, German, English, Russian, Serbian
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
3 wins.

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
Although it seemed like some kind of breakthrough at the time, Makavejev's film isn't improving with age.
– ,
Time Out,
16 Aug 2007
fresh:
An insanely brilliant comedy.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
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.
– David Bienstock,
New York Times,
21 May 2005
fresh:
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.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
6 Nov 2007
fresh:
The wittiest and possibly truest thing in it is an analysis of Stalinist propaganda films as displaced pornography.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
6 Nov 2007
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