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Sweet Movie (1975)

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Reviews Counted:17

Fresh:7

Rotten:10

Average Rating:4.7/10

Runtime: 2 hrs

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: "Sweet Movie" is Dusan Makavejev's avant-garde vision of sexuality, communism, Nazi and Soviet atrocities, bodily functions and sweets - lots and lots of sweets. Following two parallel plots,... "Sweet Movie" is Dusan Makavejev's avant-garde vision of sexuality, communism, Nazi and Soviet atrocities, bodily functions and sweets - lots and lots of sweets. Following two parallel plots, the film focuses first on Miss Canada, a virgin who wins a surreal beauty contest to become the wife of multi-billionaire with a golden phallus. The billionaire has her stuffed into a suitcase and shipped to Paris. She loses her virginity to a singer, falls into sexually induced shock, and after a stay with the Otto Muehl group she ultimately finds herself a model being bathed in a vat of chocolate. The second plot features a captain of a ship bearing the head of Karl Marx on its prow. She makes love to a young sailor in a bed of sugar and kills him, mixing his blood with the sugar. [More]

Starring: Pierre Clementi, Sami Frey, Carole Laure

Starring: Pierre Clementi, Sami Frey, Carole Laure

Director: Dusan Makavejev

Director: Dusan Makavejev
Screenwriter: Dusan Makavejev

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By turns hilarious and shocking, thanks to the director's penchant for startling imagery and bodily fluids, the passage of time may have deadened their effect but they still have the power to ruffle censorial feathers.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
05/24/03
Channel 4 Film

Potentially one of the most scandalous films ever made -- except that it has been little seen outside France and has not aged well.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Time Out

Nobody will ever accuse this one of being formulaic.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
02/13/01
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

inevitably degenerates into something Charles Manson might have produced

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
02/13/01
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

This once-banned film is a trippy ride.

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06/01/07
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Though much of the content is scandalous, the title is ultimately an accurate one -- the sensibility behind the images is innocent, enthusiastic, and childlike.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/01/00
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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An onslaught of images that are calculated to arouse the viewer to awaken from his slumber.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
06/23/09
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

No review available.

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07/03/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

This is not a film about which you can have mixed feelings. You either love it or loathe it; you are either on its wavelength or you feel assaulted by it. I stand in the latter category.

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
07/21/07
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

A very bizarre arthouse oddity.

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03/19/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
San Francisco Examiner

Only manages to turn the stomach.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
06/28/07
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

I’m not convinced of this sometimes dull and inarguably self-indulgent piece of politicarotica’s masterpiecitude.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
07/05/07
John Thomason
John Thomason
Orlando Weekly

Some call it art. I call it spinach

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10/17/02
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

I didn't hate it, although it affected me in bewildering and sometimes unpleasant ways. I didn't find it a success, but I found it an audacious attempt, and it's filled with images impossible to forget.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Sweet Movie certainly has varied political aims, but the message is hindered by graphic practices and sex.

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11/20/03
Rumsey Taylor
Rumsey Taylor
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Neither hard nor softcore. Yugoslav filmmaker Dusan Makavejev's first pic in the West, is provocative but also arbitrary.

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11/06/07
Variety Staff
Variety Staff
Variety

The over-all work remains a courageous example of a personal kind of film making that, to me, leads nowhere.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/09/05
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
New York Times
 
 
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