Sweet Movie
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| Directed by | Dušan Makavejev |
| Written by | Dušan Makavejev |
| Starring | Carole Laure John Vernon Anna Prucnal Pierre Clémenti Jane Mallett Roy Callender Sami Frey Otto Muehl George Melly |
| Music by | Manos Hadjidakis |
| Cinematography | Pierre Lhomme |
| Editing by | Yann Dedet |
| Release date(s) | 1974 |
| Running time | Canada: 99 min USA: 95 min |
| Country | Canada, France, W. Germany |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism |
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Sweet Movie is a 1974 film by Dušan Makavejev, his next after W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (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.
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[edit] 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 an vat of sugar which she has in her boat. She also seduces children in her world of sweets and revolution. At one later scene, which suggests that she has killed them too, police has laid down plastic sacks with 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.
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The film was mostly shown in theaters of art, alternative or cult films and has been enjoyed by the corresponding audiences in its time. Some critics have evaluated it in such terms, but as may be expected, many mainstream critics were not favorable at all. In recent years it can be found occasionally as an oddity in the erotic section of video rental shops, or in rare cases under cult films.
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