Sweet Movie

Sweet Movie (1974) is a film by the Yugoslavian director Dušan Makavejev, following his 1971 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism. 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 failed communist revolutionary. Director of photography is Pierre Lhomme. The film's music is from Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis. One narrative follows Miss Monde ... more

Sweet Movie (1974) is a film by the Yugoslavian director Dušan Makavejev, following his 1971 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism. 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 failed communist revolutionary. Director of photography is Pierre Lhomme. The film's music is from Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis. One narrative follows Miss Monde 1984/Miss Canada (Carole Laure), who wins a contest of the "most virgin"; her prize is the marriage to a milk industry tycoon (John Vernon). However, following his degrading puritanical introduction to intercourse, she vents her intention to leave to her mother-in-law who, at that point, nearly has her killed. The family bodyguard takes her away, further humiliates, and finally packs her in a trunk bound for Paris. She finds herself on the Eiffel Tower, where she absently meets and has intercourse with a Latin singer, El Macho (Sami Frey). The... less