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By Art S (1,002) on 14 Jan 2011

Having lost its ability to shock over the years (not withstanding some definitely NSFW scenes, as they say), Makavejev's collage/essay film…

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By Aj V (1,538) on 22 Dec 2010

This is an intricate, complex, interesting film. I'm not sure what all the Russian political stuff is about, but I found it engaging anyway…

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By Mark K (1,243) on 15 Aug 2010

Weird... exactly like WR :) All social systems which repress free love and the free flow of orgasmic energy are doomed to FAIL…

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By Chris K (1,194) on 30 Dec 2009

Makavejev interweaves fiction, documentary, and found audio and video clips (a Stalinist propaganda film, electro-shock treatment footage)…

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By Leanne C (36) on 02 Oct 2009

The film opens with a direct juxaposition of the subsequently varying threads of human sexual pleasure and 1970s politics in yugoslavia…

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By Kyle C (838) on 22 Sep 2009

Communism and free love. Apparently the documentary footage is real but taken out of context. Great fun…

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By Chris S (3,490) on 14 Sep 2009

Even with this radically liberal film that can only be described as strange more than anything, I think the filmmaker's not as sexually liberated…

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By R.a. L (186) on 31 Aug 2009

As artsy as artsy movies can get. Mysteries of The Organism, from director Dusan Makavejev is dense, pretentious, compelling and ultimately brilliant…

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By Eric F (636) on 12 Aug 2009

This is a very strange film, which is expected given its Dusan Makavejev…

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By Sherief Z (48) on 28 Jun 2009

Probably my favorite film of all time, but definitely the most influential…

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By Darrell B (62) on 18 Mar 2009

I was amazed with this film, it was something completely different and refreshing - when I think of Serbian film up to that moment…

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By Joe W (560) on 04 Mar 2009

Ok this is probably the hardest movie I've reviewed so far. It was good...and very bizarre…

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By Dezeree H (11) on 12 Jan 2009

Really stimulating stuff, funny as hell and hard to watch at times. formally this film is really amazing…

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By Bill T (1,098) on 01 Jan 2009

Interesting, but ultimately head scratching tale of sex and communism…

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By Andy C (1,868) on 18 Dec 2008

Pr0n as social commentary, or something. Depends on how you feel about Freud…

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By Joseph S (1,124) on 20 Aug 2008

There's a documentary in this film about Wilhelm Riech that is fascinating, and a mini-film about the relationship between a Yugoslavian activist…

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By Lyndon G (161) on 30 Jul 2008

It sounds interesting: communist Yugoslavia, Wilhelm Reich, sex, ice skating…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 08 Jul 2008

It's worth seeing because it gets one's juices flowing whether buying into the martyred Reich's theories or not…

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By Andy P (1,510) on 27 Jun 2008

I decided to watch this to get a taste of Makavejev's films, because I'm curious, and a little afraid, to watch his infamous Sweet Movie…

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By Irvin C (321) on 07 Jun 2008

One of the strangest, most fucked-up movies I've ever seen and I loved it…

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