Sweet Movie

Infobox Film
name = Sweet Movie


caption = Sweet Movie poster
director = Dušan Makavejev
producer =
writer = Dušan Makavejev
starring = Carole Laure
John Vernon
Anna Prucnal
Pierre Clémenti
Jane Mallett
Roy Callender
Sami Frey
Otto Muehl
George Melly
music = Manos Hadjidakis
cinematography = Pierre Lhomme
editing = Yann Dedet
released = 1974
runtime = 98 min
country = Canada
France
W. Germany
awards =
budget =
preceded_by = ""
followed_by = "Montenegro"
language = English
amg_id = 1:48108
imdb_id = 0072235

"Sweet Movie" is a 1974 film by Dušan Makavejev, his next after "" (1971). The film follows two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen and one who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar. Director of photography is Pierre Lhomme. The film's music is from Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis.

Plot

In the first part, a contest of the "most virgin" Miss Monde 1984, Miss Canada (Carole Laure) wins, and her prize is the marriage with the milk industry tycoon (John Vernon). However, during his degrading introduction to intercourse, she gets shocked by his golden penis and tries to run away. Yet she is trapped by his circle, further humiliated and finally packed in a trunk and sent to Paris. When the trunk opens she finds herself on the Eiffel Tower, where she absently meets and has intercourse with a Latin singer, El Macho (Sami Frey). As a result they get stuck together and have to be taken away by medics. In a still shocked state, she wanders in an anarchic community, where she finds affectionate care. The commune practices some liberating sessions, where a member, with the assistance of the others, goes through a (re)birth experience, cries, urinates and defecates like a baby, while the others are cleaning and pampering him. Later she is seen acting for an obscene advertisement, where she masturbates covered in liquid chocolate.

The second part involves a woman, Anna Planeta (Anna Prucnal) piloting a candy-filled boat down a river, with a big papier-mache head of Karl Marx on the prow. She picks up the hitchhiking sailor 'Potemkin' (Pierre Clémenti) and seduces him to become her lover. In his surrender she eventually stabs through the heart in a vat of sugar which she has in her boat. She also seduces children in her world of sweets and revolution. In one later scene, which suggests that she has killed the children too, police have laid down plastic sacks containing the children's bodies on the riverside; yet the children, unseen by the others, come out of the sacks with happy expressions and move playfully around, as if liberated from their bodies.

Reception

The film created a storm of controversy upon its release. With simulated (and unsimulated) scenes of coprophilia, emetophilia, fondling, and footage of remains of the Soviet Katyn Massacre victims, the film was banned in many countries, or severely cut. It is still banned in many countries to this day. The film was nearly impossible to find since its initial release in 1974, but Criterion released the film on DVD in a region 1 DVD on June 19th, 2007.

Cast

* Carole Laure ...as Miss Monde 1984/ Miss Canada * John Vernon ....as Mr. Kapital * Jane Mallett ...as PDG/ Chastity Belt Lady * Roy Callender ..as Jeremiah Muscle * Sami Frey ......as El Macho * Anna Prucnal ...as Anna Planeta/ Capt. Ann * Pierre Clémenti as Potemkin Sailor * Otto Muehl .....as Member of Therapie-Komune * Marpessa Dawn ..as Mama Communa * Roland Topor * George Melly

* Sonny Forbes * Therese Schulmeister * Renata Steiger * Denis Boucher * Louis Bessières * Max Fischer * Catherine Sola * Hansi Roll * Berndt Stein * Herbert Stumpfl * Sabine Haudepin * Robin Gammell

ee also

*List of films portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors
*List of mainstream films with unsimulated sex

External links

*imdb title|id=0072235|title=Sweet Movie
*amg movie|id=1:48108|title=Sweet Movie
* [http://criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=390 The Criterion Collection]