Rodney Welch is wrong. Makavejev’s film is just as revolutionary as Last Tango, but in a slightly different sense. WR is focused on sexuality rather than sensuality, free love rather than eroticism, sex as recreation rather than sex as therapy. Other than the fact that they’re both X-rated erotic art films from the early 1970s, I don’t see the comparison at all. Sorry, Rodney, but that’s what happens when your profile picture is you in a fedora and beard looking dismissively at the camera like a middle-aged hipster.

Grade: B+.