Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, John Vernon
The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar, luring men and boys aboard for sex, de...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 19, 2007
Stats: 229 reviews
There are some films that are designed to shock, some designed to titillate, some that delight in disgusting the view. For Makavejev, shock, disgust and titillation are never the purpose, but a means to a form of psycho-liberation. Makavejev in Sweet Movie hurtles us head first i...( read more)
WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE MOST DISGUSTING FILM EVER MADE. This makes Pink Flamingos look like a Sunday night family comedy. Murder, pedophilia, puking, public defecation, piss drinking, whatever debauchery you can name of this has it. Carole Laure is hot and looks very tasty drench...( read more)
A thoroughly pretentious, incoherent, arty piece of nonsense from start to finish. There are a couple of good scenes (and they're not necessarily the more startling ones) but they're not really worth waiting for. The film was rejected by the BBFC in 1975 and would almost certainl...( read more)
Dusan Makavejev's Sweet Movie gave me the exact same problem Ai No Corrida (1976) gave me: it could have been a masterpiece. Don't get me wrong; films made by visionary auteurs that actually dare to establish their filmmaking style through a groundbreaking and controversial persp...( read more)
Some great gags and a great cast, but no matter how avant garde it is, it still needs a plot.
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Country: Canada / France / West Germany
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Length: 98 min
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on the sexual freedom and perversion. of the 1970's in Europe. a side-story goes shows the perspective of a communist/gypsy camp on the seas.
Yes, it does strip the boundaries, well, tears the conventional boundaries apart for film making but in Yugoslavia in the 1974..I mean i...( read more)
Sweet Movie by Dusan Makavejev is disturbing movie. It simply has child molestation scenes as enjoyable acts and obviously the companies that have endorsed this movie have approved these acts. It is unbelievable how child abuse and children work are acceptable in entertainment industry. It was a shame and absolutely disturbing movie.
I liked this movie, and am glad Criterion released it.
I thinkf olks who like "extreme cinema," for lack of a better term, would enjoy it. It's in a class of films that could include John Waters's Pink Flamingos (and his whole 70s ouevre, basically), Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom, Myra Breckenridge, Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, and other experiments in cinematic excess. I enjoyed it; the Criterion print is nice and clean-looking.
I've heard Salo will be reissued by Criterion in 2008.
wow. a lot of hating on SWEET MOVIE. too bad; with the official US release on Criterion (who did a beautiful job), Dusan's classic is primed to provoke and, yes, dismay and even disgust a new generation. perhaps it boils down to the cliche "either you get it or you don't", though some would prefer "every generation gets the art it deserves".
i'm unwavering in my conviction that this is the most unique film ever attempted (and yes, it succeeds magnificently); my own personal # 1 favourite; and possibly the greatest ever.
hail Makavejev!!
(i'll write an 'official' review one of these days.)
Henry Covert
author of feature review of SWEET MOVIE for the Spring 1998 issue of VIDEO EYEBALL, magazine. Makavejev himself called my review "insightful and intelligent" (i was stunned.. but in a good way).
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