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“An insanely brilliant comedy” (Roger Ebert) long banned in Ontario (and in Yugoslavia, from whence it hailed), and still capable of packing a polemical punch, Dušan Makavejev's WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM is “unquestionably one of the most important subversive masterpieces of the 1970s: a hilarious, highly erotic political comedy which quite seriously proposes sex as the ideological imperative for revolution and advances a plea for Erotic Socialism” (Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art ). A pell-mell mix of porn, documentary, found footage, fiction, and philosophical musing, WR explores the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, who taught that social and political liberation derives from sexual liberation, and that sexual repression results in many forms of violence. Freewheeling in form, WR goes MONDO CANE one moment (documentary footage of unusual sexual practices), straight-faced documentary the next (interviews with Reich's children), and crazily fictional after that (a story about a Yugoslavian hairdresser who rejects her prole boyfriend for a Soviet figure skater). Soldiers masturbate their guns, erections are turned into plaster casts, and an unnamed Jackie Curtis talks about the joys of being a transsexual. And that's just for anarchic starters.
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