WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM Tribute to Dusan Makavejev: Genuine Revolutionary

One of the most talked-about films in the world when first released, WR can be called The Crying Game of its era. As Variety remarked, “Yugoslav filmmaker Dusan Makavejev has brought,off a most unusual film built round the work of the late Wilhelm Reich, proponent of cosmic life, the energy of love, and the power of the orgasm WR is a unique mixture of lecture, demonstration, documentary, and re-enacted, correlated episodes to comment on Reich’s theories, and perhaps Makavejev’s own, on the essence of the ‘joy of living’ It is handled with shrewd association, charm and sheer fun. In its 80 minutes, the film is filled with so much brash and sly wit, dynamic dialectics, excerpts from a Russo cult film, and intercut Nazi films showing backward or deranged people as a prelude to euthenasia laws, that it keeps perking throughout”