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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 candy and sugar, who is a failed communist revolutionary .
A film by Dusan Makavejev that explores the themes of virginity, anarchy, and revolution through the stories of two women. One is a beauty pageant winner who marries a rich milk tycoon and rebels against him, and the other is a boat captain who cruises Amsterdam with a giant Karl Marx head.
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- Dusan Makavejev
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- Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal
May 7, 2021 · PATREON: / youhavebeenwatchingfilms #SweetMovie #DušanMakavejev #OttoMuehl Sweet Movie - Interpreting Extreme Surrealism: This week's video essay focuses on attempting to dissect Dušan...
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Apr 10, 2012 · Sweet Movie is a 1974 film by Yugoslavian art-house director Dušan Makavejev, who challenged the limits of personal and political freedom with scatological humor and taboo-shattering scenes. The film features a gynecological beauty pageant, a food orgy, and a song by Anna Prucnal, among other absurd and provocative elements.
- Miss World 1984
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.
With its lewd abandon and sketch-comedy perversity, Makavejev’s cult staple Sweet Movie is a full-throated shriek in the face of bourgeois complacency and movie watching.
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.