Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Jackson Booth-Millard I found this film in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, I had no idea what the film would involve, I only read a little about it before watching, I was willing to give it a chance. The WR of the title stands for Wilhelm Reich, the Austrian-born psychologist and sexologist, his most famous theory was of orgone energy - a vital, primal, non-material element believed to permeate the universe. Basically this film is all about the theories of sex, erogenous satisfaction and sexual repression, as well as social systems and political freedom, it switches between documentary and fictional mode often. The documentary side has some contributions from scientists in the fields of relationships and sex, and public opinions; and the the fictional side involves the romance between a Yugoslav girl and an inhibited Russian skater. The also serves as a homage to the work of Reich, and includes archive footage from propaganda features, and footage of real couple having sexual interactions. Starring Milena Dravic as Milena, Jagoda Kaloper as Jagoda, Zoran Radmilovic as Radmilovic and Ivica Vidovic as Vladimir Ilyich. I agree with critics that this film does not focus on the work Reich, his theories or his free-loving disciples, and I agree that allegorical fictional love story going on is exceedingly clumsy, but I can see why this film has achieved a cult status, it is not a bad experimental documentary drama. Worth watching!

Pierre Radulescu W.R. stands for Wilhelm Reich, the controversial psychoanalyst who tried to put together Marx and Freud, whose books were burned in Germany in the 30's, and in US in the 50s, the guy who fled from from Nazi Germany to become later a victim of McCarthyism.The movie of Makavejev is a documentary intercut with a feature. A documentary on Wilhelm Reich, using archive footage and interviews (edited in a way that leads to parody), and a story about a young woman in Yugoslavia of the sixties, an ardent adept of Reich and of the accomplishment of Communist revolution through sexual freedom. She falls for a Soviet ice skater, who cannot leave the Communist dogma and prefers abstinence, so he beheads her. As crazy as all these sound, add to this mix other independent sequences with sex, gays, masturbation, Stalinist propaganda footage, followed by scenes with electroshock applied on political prisoners in Soviet Union. The score is in counter-tempo with the images, suggesting new senses for everything, suggesting also associations with other famous film works.It is not a movie for the weak ones, definitely not for non-adults. If you have the guts to watch it, it is cathartic.

catsoup The movie consists of seemingly unrelated footage of 1.Stalinist propaganda cinema 2.Interviews and documentary footage on Wilhelm Reich 3.Explicit performance art footage 4.An American rock star (Tuli Kupferberg) wandering around New York with an assault rifle with anti-war poetry being read off-screen5.Original footage containing -a uniform-clad women proclaiming pseudo-communist pamphlets (f.e."celibacy is counterrevolutionary!") inspired by Wilhelm Reich's ideas, -a Yugoslav steelworker in dire need of a sex condemning the "red bourgeoisie" -an uptight Russian sportsman named Vladimir Ilyich reciting V.I.Lenin's writings. They interact in quite delirious sketches which contain some violence and naked skin and some humping. The walls are decorated with Freud's and Hitler's portraits as well as with commie agitprop and Hollywood movie posters. Neither the plot nor the dialogs make sense. A huge part of the movie is not in English, but with white hardcoded subtitles. At times they blend with the background becoming unreadable, but as a fluent speaker of Croatian and Russian I can assure you that that too was just another of the quirks intended by the author.

omael This is the first time that I ma actually making a work of Art critic, nevertheless the subject is quite peculiar. Dusan Makavejev's film "W.R. Mysteries of the Organism" is a pure masterpiece. It contains a very subtle message narrated in rather "violent" way and it was filmed as life cycle, so the title is a true one. It begins by an copulation n finishes, as every drama does, with a brutal murder/death/kill. The political weight of this film is enormous, because Makavejev is making a story line between sexual potential/frustration and communist dictatorship view through eyes of a politico/sexually engaged young women in the early seventies Yugoslavia. He used every Yugoslav cliché from that time to draw us a picture of it's conservatives and political Puritanism by just staging that young women as a sexual revolution symbol, fighting against the Yugoslav male dominance through desire of free and non-conditioned love and happiness. The aesthetic approach was the most interesting one. It is mixture of a documentary and played feature, the first half of the film is concentrated on the document footages of William Reich's philosophy concerning the sexual liberation, and personally I do not know much about it, but it seams quite obscure. The only thing that came clear to me, from his theory, is that we are so conditioned, by the SYSTEM, that we are afraid of letting go our feelings and desires and so w become frustrated and full of hate and extremely receptive to the political dictatorship dogmas. This film is a half staged homage to W.R. and his, I can say, ideology. Half of picture is taking place in the States, and the other half in Yugoslavia, constantly parachuted by the flicks of Stalin. Milena Dravic's acting is simply brilliant and extremely convincing, I am so use in seeing her playing some goodie goodies, but in this one she show us an another face of a determined women in an open combat for the equality of sexes and female liberation, but not just female she is taking a rather androgynous way of expressing the need for the sexual EVOLUTION, in that time it was considered as a revolution, but it lost it's pace, we did not evolve, but that sexual revolution is being explained through the utopian communist lens, which is interesting in it's own surreal way. This film in its time was more than Avant Garde, today it is Avant Garde because if we just simply change the political context to the contemporary one, we will get almost the same thing. The message is: FREE YOUR MYSTERIOUS BODY AND UNFOLD YOUR DREAMS, CONFRONT WITH YOURSELF.