Sydämen asia

Disenchantment of the world and sexuality by means of documentary alienation, or ironizing and sexualizing apparently serious/asexual topics? It's no wonder that Lacanian-oriented thinkers emerged from the former Yugoslavia, with Slavoj Žižek being the most well-known among them. They psychoanalytically reveal in the roots of the social phenomena the functioning of desire and... the death instinct. (The next film by Makavejev will actually focus on another psychoanalyst - Wilhelm Reich). Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator beats to the rhythm of 60s cinema and the force of modernity - even the central couple embodies the principles of modern liberated sexuality in contrast to traditional romantic and familial predispositions: male documentary cold sequences against the female spontaneous story? Self-governing socialism, the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, science, and sociology opposing desire, fiction, and basic joys? Or more radically: self-governing socialism, the October Revolution, science, and sociology, hygiene inspectors killing libidinal desire within themselves and suppressing the consciousness that it is precisely desire on which their existence depends? In Makavejev's film, there is no private story or intimate desire, and the main characters are in contrast to reality. However, the interior and exterior interweave like Lacanian unconsciousness. (01.02.2016)

Love beyond the grave was born between the beautiful Isabel and the bland Ahmed. Literally. As soon as it began, it was over. Was this the result of totalitarianism, or perhaps of a rat infestation? Some of the lecture hall interludes were quite appropriate and often even relatively funny, while others were quite annoying and did nothing to advance the story. (65%) (12.02.2023)