I'm not entirely sure what Dušan Makavejev is trying to say in his film Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator. Is it that state-sponsored sexual oppression leads to murderous impulses? That sexual openness is counterrevolutionary? Then again, one of the first sex scenes in the film between the main couple is juxtaposed with scenes of Communists destroying churches. Are we then supposed to interpret sexual freedom as being coterminous with Communist values and their successes? Of course, this being Makavejev, he might just be pulling our chain. Perhaps that's the point?
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