
After many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passions. When the boyfriend returns, he gets into a fight with the pregnant girl that ends tragically.... (Full plot summary below)
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After many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passions. When the boyfriend returns, he gets into a fight with the pregnant girl that ends tragically.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertYou have to be the victim of a certain state of mind to appreciate the humor and truth of Makavejev. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceCelebrates the force of sexuality even as it clashes, tragically, with traditional ideology |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullIn this, Makavejev's second major film, the Yugoslavian's wry sensibilities about love and communism our laid out with little fanfare or apology. |
| New York TimesBosley CrowtherThis is a charming picture, a subtle and sophisticated spoof of organized social education and of the modern-day sex comedy, right up to the point where it goes mawkish and turns into a melodramatic brawl over a pregnancy. |
| User ReviewZoran SBrilliant, weird, and original like all early Makavejev. |
| User ReviewHindénbörg EProbably my favorite Makavejev film after "Sweet Movie." I'd talk about the movie here, but instead I will just take this opportunity to bitch about Flixter's lame ass. This movie was made in 1967, not '58. Secondly, the movie is only about 70-75 minutes long, not 90. Get your shit together you Philestine Phucks! Yeah, and another thing, where the hell is the DVD of this? Goddammit Criterion/Blue Underground... Get off your ass already! |
| User ReviewMEC rA wonderfully bizarre, one of a kind work. |
| User ReviewRyan MMakavejev's films are impossible to classify. For the most part, I don't appreciate his films until after they are finished and I have time to think about them. I loved the sex experts in the film, quite funny. |
| User ReviewAaron WMukavejev's film is a story about a young switchboard operator whom falls in love and marries a man, whom is a rat exterminator. While her husband away on business, the young woman becomes lonely eventually succumbing to another man's passes. This leads to tragedy when her husband returns to find out what happens. This film is about how society regulates sex and romance, mixing our main storyline with interjections from sexologists and criminologists. Mukavejev's style is present, and its great to see it in his early work. |
| User ReviewKeith EA great little movie. Love, sex, politics, class, and accidental murder. Yum. |
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator