"Will man be remodeled? Will future man retain certain old organs?" This is the question, posed by a certified sexologist, that sparks Love Affair, where Kama Sutra meets the Eastern bloc. The eponymous telephone employee is the Hungarian-born Isabella, whose affair with Ahmed, a timid health inspector (but an aggressive member of the People's Rat Extermination Brigade), is chronicled herein. (Makavejev's early films incidentally reflected the cultural composite of Yugoslavia.) Their love begins casually enough-watching a swell documentary on the fall of the Romanov Dynasty-but then the earth moves, just as a church spire falls during the October Revolution. The film combines extraordinarily nuanced sensual images with loving and humorous sidebars on daily life-strudel-making is truly heroic, as the music attests. A seeming digression-a pseudo-scientific criminal investigation-proves to be all too important to the narrative at hand. Ahmed, it seems, will not be love's slave.