WR-- mysteries of the organism [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Cinema 5 ; Neoplanta Film ; a film by Dušan Makavejev ; created and conceived by Dušan Makavejev.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Director-approved special ed.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Milena Dravić, Jagoda Kaloper, Ivica Vidović, Zoran Radmilović, Tuli Kupferberg, Jackie Curtis, Miodrag Andrić. Conceived and created by Dušan Makavejev. Originally released as a motion picture in 1971. Distributed theatrically by Janus Films and Cinema 5. Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Dušan Makavejev; audio commentary assembled from Raymond Durgnat's 1999 book on the film; "Hole in the soul," Makavejev's 1994 tragicomic autobiographical short film, originally made for the BBC; new and archival video interviews with Makavejev; an essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Summary:
This documentary-fiction film begins as an investigation into 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, this art-house smash is both whimsical and bold in its blending of politics and sexuality.
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