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- Sweet Movie tackles the limits of personal and political freedom with kaleidoscopic feverishness, shuttling viewers from a gynecological beauty pageant to a grotesque food orgy with scatological, taboo-shattering glee.
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Sweet Movie is a 1974 surrealist comedy-drama film written and directed by Yugoslav filmmaker Dušan Makavejev. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] An international co-production of companies from France , Canada , and West Germany , the film follows two women: a Canadian beauty queen , who represents a modern commodity culture, and a captain aboard a ship laden with ...
Sweet Movie: Directed by Dusan Makavejev. With Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal, Sami Frey. After winning the "most virgin" contest, Miss Canada is married to a rich milk tycoon. But she quickly flees the marriage to experience the world around her, full of sweetness and anarchy.
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- Dusan Makavejev
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- Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal
In the first segment, the winner of the prestigious Miss Monde 1984 beauty pageant, the statuesque Miss Canada, finds herself trapped in a downward spiral of degradation and humiliation until her emancipation through the liberating force of liquid chocolate.
May 19, 2008 · The shooting of Sweet Movie was planned for October 1974. In the earlier version of the script, the leading female character ends up catatonic in a mental hospital. She comes back to life by being treated with the highly perceptive non-action of a nonverbal doctor whom I imagined as my variation of Ronnie Laing.
- Dušan Makavejev
Mar 17, 2019 · A dirty joke masquerading as libertine battle hymn, Dušan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie corrupts the propriety of mid-century American advertising, perverting its candyshell colors and doe-eyed piety into a series of mordant provocations, succeeding in evoking anarchy, but failing as a treatise on subjective morality and epicureanism.
Apr 10, 2012 · Sweet Movie tackles the limits of personal and political freedom with kaleidoscopic feverishness, shuttling viewers from a gynecological beauty pageant to a grotesque food orgy with scatological, taboo-shattering glee.
Jun 18, 2007 · The film’s themes—sex, subversion, sweetness—come together near the end, when Miss World immerses her naked body in chocolate for an advertising film, wallowing and undulating with a sensual abandon that reflects the life-changing journey she’s been through.
