Potentially one of the most scandalous films ever made -- except that it has been little seen outside France and has not aged well.
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06/24/06
Sweet Movie (1975)
38 %
Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 6 Rotten:10 Average Rating: 4.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs
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, the film focuses first on Miss Canada, a virgin who wins a surreal beauty contest to become the... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Pierre Clementi, Sami Frey, Carole Laure
Reviews
1 - 16 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
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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.
05/24/03
Top Critic
Neither hard nor softcore. Yugoslav filmmaker Dusan Makavejev's first pic in the West, is provocative but also arbitrary.
11/06/07
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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.
07/21/07
I’m not convinced of this sometimes dull and inarguably self-indulgent piece of politicarotica’s masterpiecitude.
07/05/07
The over-all work remains a courageous example of a personal kind of film making that, to me, leads nowhere.
05/09/05
Top Critic
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.
10/23/04
Top Critic
Sweet Movie certainly has varied political aims, but the message is hindered by graphic practices and sex.
11/20/03
inevitably degenerates into something Charles Manson might have produced
02/13/01
Though much of the content is scandalous, the title is ultimately an accurate one -- the sensibility behind the images is innocent, enthusiastic, and childlike.
01/01/00
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