WR: Mysteries of the Organism

BFI Film Classics

by Raymond Durgnat

The starting point for Dusan Makavejev's film 'WR: Mysteries of the Organism' is Wilhelm Reich, the Marxist psychoanalyst who preached sexual enlightenment as a gateway to a better society. Juxtaposing hippie America and cold war Yugoslavia, it's a film which speaks urgently to the contemporary world. In the BFI MODERN CLASSICS series.

Genres: Film, Nonfiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published May 27, 1999

Reviews

[robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of the last published works of a legendary film critic (Jonathan Rosenbaum's favorite). I had the pleasure of attending a 4 hour workshop with the Yugoslavian director Dusan Makavejev (a man without a country). At times I prayed for pithiness and clarity, but Durgnat's book is dense and endless (in questions and ideas if not in pages) and a fitting tribute to a masterful film of liberating, revolutionary power.