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Movie poster: Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret (1971)
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Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret

1971 · 76 min Documentary
4.5 / 10 · TMDB

A documentary examining the use of marijuana by young people in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Included are interviews with people who regularly use marijuana and testify to its beneficial effects as an aphrodisiac and scenes of nude encounter groups, instructions for making marijuana brownies, soldiers in Vietnam smoking marijuana, etc.

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Year 1971
Country United States of America
Genre Documentary
Director Dennis Van Zak
Runtime 76 min.
Rating TMDB: 4.5/10 (14 votes)

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The film constructs its narrative from a collage of candid interviews, domestic vignettes, and unflinching scenes, relying on a direct cinema approach. It explores the phenomenon not through judgment, but by immersing the viewer in the environment, capturing sincere, if subjective, testimonies.

What lingers after viewing is a surprisingly sober, almost ethnographic snapshot of a counterculture where marijuana symbolized liberation. The film serves as a potent time capsule of a social experiment. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Dennis Van Zak

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