Montenegro

Montenegro also known as Montenegro - Or Pigs and Pearls (Swedish: Montenegro eller Pärlor och Svin) is a Swedish black comedy film by Yugoslav director Dušan Makavejev. Marianne Faithfull sings The Ballad of Lucy Jordan over the credit sequence. Marilyn Jordan (Susan Anspach) is a bored, depressed American housewife, married to a rich Swedish businessman with two seemingly perfect children. Slowly showing signs of mental illness from the mundane... more

Montenegro also known as Montenegro - Or Pigs and Pearls (Swedish: Montenegro eller Pärlor och Svin) is a Swedish black comedy film by Yugoslav director Dušan Makavejev. Marianne Faithfull sings The Ballad of Lucy Jordan over the credit sequence. Marilyn Jordan (Susan Anspach) is a bored, depressed American housewife, married to a rich Swedish businessman with two seemingly perfect children. Slowly showing signs of mental illness from the mundane routine of her life, she tries to "spice up" her existence by surprising the family when she eats their entire dinner, setting the bedclothes on fire and poisoning the pet dog's milk and then advising it not to drink. Eventually Martin, Marilyn's husband, decides to show her to a psychiatrist, but that only serves to further her frustration. One day, when she decides to accompany her husband on a business trip, Marilyn gets detained by security at the airport on a technicality. After missing her plane, she is befriended by a group of gypsies... less