A mubi review: W.R. Mysteries of the Organism
W.R. Mysteries of the Organism / W.R. - MISTERIJE ORGANIZMA | DUŠAN MAKAVEJEV | 1971 | yugoslavia | format: 35MM | 84 min
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) in his surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism.
Here's Amos Vogel's take on it:
"Beneath the film's lighthearted frivolity lurks a more serious intent: opposition to all oppressive social systems, East or West, the removal of prurience from sex and a final squaring of accounts by the new radicals with the now reactionary Russian regime... a tribute to the power of ideas over institutions."
And here's mine on mubi.
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