Word: makavejev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toying with time while juggling ribaldry and death, Director Dusan Makavejev made Love Affair the way an action painter attacks a canvas. As a result, there are many happy accidents and not a few disasters. The movie is at its Rabelaisian best when it sticks to salacity, at its worst when it attempts sagacity by commenting on life's meaninglessness. In the West the age of the Theater and the Cinema of the Absurd has rendered such Dada as dead as the dodo. But in countries with a history of repressive censorship, nonsense undoubtedly serves a therapeutic purpose...