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WR: Mysteries of the Organism: BFI Film Classics

31-Mar-99
96 pages
Published/distributed by BFI Publishing
ISBN/EAN: 9780851707204
Paperback
Price: £9.99
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WR: Mysteries of the Organism: BFI Film Classics 
Durgnat, Raymond
In Dusan Makajev's controversial and explicit WR - Mysteries of the Organism (1971), 'WR' is Wilhelm Reich , maverick intellectual, sexual pioneer and theorist of 'Orgone energy', but also 'world revolution'. WR stages an encounter between psychotherapy and Marxism, sexual permissiveness and socialism. Juxtaposing hippie America and cold war Yugoslavia, it's a film of ideas and sensations which speaks urgently to the contemporary world.
Raymond Durgnat thinks that WR is an adventure playground, a 'jungle gym' which the film's spectators enter and interact with. It's intellectual cinema, and a film which prophesied the horror of the conflict and slaughter in what is now the former Yugoslavia.
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