WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Criterion Collection)
by Dusan Makavejev
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Actor: Ivica Vidovic, Jagoda Kaloper, Milena Dravic, Tuli Kupferberg, Zoran RadmilovicDirector: Dusan Makavejev
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Aleksandar Petkovic
Cinematographer: Predrag Popovic
Producer: Dusan Makavejev
Writer: Dusan Makavejev
Editor: Ivanka Vukasovic
Producer: Svetozar Udovicki
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); Serbo-Croatian (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection
Movie Reviews of WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Criterion Collection)
Movie Review: A farcical work by a master of comic timing and sensual exhibition...
Summary: 3 Stars
The plot concentrates on Wilhelm Reich's controversial vital energy... Reich believes that unless a mysterious universal phenomenon called "orgone energy" is discharged naturally through sexual union, obsessions and compulsions will erupt...
The film is a collection of these sorts of neuroses, done with exceptional skill and comic action, set in modern-day Yugoslavia... The main character is Milena Dravic, who shouts from her heavily populated apartment: "Politics is for those whose orgasm is incomplete!" Complimenting the idealistic Milena are two female sexologists who are obsessed with the physical nature of human relations...
The film is a blast at repression of any kind--political or moral--and a poem to uninhibited sexual intercourse... Repression sickens and enslaves, whereas nature's physical pleasure sets the human spirit free...
There is an abundance of vivacious sexual encounters, much nudity, and constant immersing into other social taboos, but the film's coup de gr?ce is a natural mixing of erotica, humor, and politics...
Summary of WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Criterion Collection)
What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of Communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Duan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism begins as an investigation of 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. Banned upon its release in the director's homeland, the art-house smash WR is both whimsical and bold in its blending of politics and sexuality.Art House & International DVD Video
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