Article: `Love Affair' links sex, politics

Rats, murder, sex - "Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator" (Facets Multimedia, $59.95) has got it all. But hold on, horror movie fans. This quirky 1967 Yugoslavian film is for a highly select audience - one with a heightened taste for the bizarre.

"Love Affair," directed by Dusan Makavejev, tells the tale of a heated liaison between a lovely switchboard operator and a lonely rat exterminator. The chronological tale is interrupted by dissertations by various experts: a sexologist, a forensics expert and a team of exterminators. All attempt to explain what happens in highly clinical terms. All fail ignominiously.

The lovers have a heated affair, which is ...

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