Word: makavejev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DISCLAIMER at The Coca-Cola Kid's beginning so emphatically states, this is not really a film about Coke, although the recent confusion of Coke brands makes the choice of corporation ironic. It is only partially a film about American economic imperialism, a statement which Yugoslavian director Dusan Makavejev can't resist. Mostly, this film is about Americanisms, the facades that we try to present to the outside world, and how these masks are false to ourselves as much as to others...
...Dusan Makavejev, the film maker who Went Too Far with his anarchist collages W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism and Sweet Movie, has run for cover to Sweden and emerged with this shaggy act of atonement. It is not his fault that he was seven years between pictures, or that his new one seems almost (Gasp!) normal in its story of yet one more mad housewife: Susan Anspach finds fear, loathing, debasement-in short, liberation-when she joins a carnal carnival of Slavic immigrants. Montenegro is a Laurel-and-Hardy jalopy of a film, putting along impudently and then suddenly stalling...