WR: Mysteries of the Organism
by Dusan Makavejev
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Actor: Ivica Vidovic, Jagoda Kaloper, Milena Dravic, Tuli Kupferberg, Zoran RadmilovicDirector: Dusan Makavejev
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); Serbo-Croatian (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 80 minutes
Release Date: 2001-01-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Facets Video
Studio: Facets Video
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Movie Review: We Have Just Started
Summary: 3 Stars
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Duration: 85 minutes
When Yugoslavian director Dusan Makarejev's film WR: Mysteries of the Orgasm debuted back in 1971 it received both critical acclaim and scorn. Extraordinarily popular in France, it won top honors at Cannes, and in New York, it was outright banned in Makarejev's homeland as well as the Soviet Union as a film that was anti-Communist and anti-Soviet. Yet, it is also called anti-America and a heaping slag of defamation of the psychologist Wilhelm Reich, who early in his career had been Sigmund Freud's assistant and later, at the end of his life, imprisoned by the American government for some of his medical procedures. So what is this film? Is it anti-American, anti-soviet, anti-morals, anti-cinema? Yes, it can be all these things, or it can be viewed as a filmic voyage to embrace the id without society's, be it the Soviet Union or America, moralistic encodings strapping one down to act a certain way.
The film is supposedly a "documentary" of Wilhelm Reich and of how his experiments not only ended up with him in prison, but his works ordered destroyed by the American government. However, the film turns into a series of vignettes primarily revolving around a Yugoslavian woman named Milena and her younger, dark-haired nymphomaniac friend Jagoda who "liberates" herself constantly through sexual intercourse with handsome soldiers. Milena is a bit more restrained than Jagoda, but when the Soviet ice skater Vladimir Ilych makes his appearance; her own desires come to the fore to be blocked by Ilych's communist rhetoric.
I am not quite sure what to make of this film as a whole, but I must say that it is definitely an interesting experience. Also, the appearances of various artists and editors such as Betty Dodson and Jim Buckley, both of whom were involved with sexual works in the underground, make for a remarkably coherent, thought provoking mess of a film.
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