"Love Affair: Or, The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator "
by Dusan Makavejev

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Movie Review: Chaotic Fun
Summary: 5 Stars

The subtitles suffer from the white-on-white phenomenon in a couple of places, but you can still always tell what the characters are talking about, and the film itself is so excellent that it doesn't really matter. Eva Ras was my favorite actress in `Man is Not a Bird' (in which she had a charming supporting role), and she steals the show here in her own film. Regarding the actual story, it's about a young switchboard operator (Ras) who has a free-wheeling - and ultimately tragic - fling with a rat-catcher named Ahmed. This tale is interspersed with clips of a doctor of "Sexology" explaining his theories, clips of a criminologist discussing the tragic climax of the love affair story, and a couple of inexplicable scenes of two male and female nude models doing some sort of performance art.

When I watch this film, I can't help but feel that we all "lost the plot" in the 80s and 90s. There was more than enough naivety in the 60s - young hippies making idiots of themselves, etc. - but this film shows the REAL revolution. I wasn't born until 1971, but watching this film gives me that Miniver Cheevy feeling that I was born too late. And there is no way a film this magical could be made today.

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