Chaz
16Nov11
In your view, depicting violent murdering is acceptable but celebration of human sexuality (and human excrement--we all do it) is "ridiculous?"
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Matt Burgess
21May12
Sex, food, politics, anarchy, excess. Some of the most sensual sequences ever filmed, a kaleidoscope of blood, sugar and vomit. The ending scene of the nude Carole Laure drowning and masturbating in a tub of chocolate is one of the best things I have ever seen.
Judicial Joe
24Sep11
The universe is conspiring against me to watch this film. First the controversial seduction scene is removed from YouTube, and now the full cut froze on Hulu+, who are notorious for not bookmarking where you left off on films, an hour and a half before an art show/reunion with an old friend. I do love what I've seen and highly recommend it based on that, it's a Marxist sex comedy and those don't come out very often.
Greg S.
17Apr11
The politics are a bit dated but the film is true enough to Makavejev's opposition to what he sees as life-denying ideologies from soviet communism to capitalism. The film falls between 'Pink Flamingos' as essentially a test of hippie tolerance and 'The act of seeing with ones own eyes' where despite it's grotesque content the curious fashion in which it's filmed is almost inviting.Yeah I actually liked this.
meg
31Jan11
"The whole world is our country, it's great to be mad, it's fun to do nothing, do things in the nude, oh it's sweet to be hungry, finger lickin' good" Sweet Movie is too bizarre & good humoured to be unsettling, I didn't find it a negative experience, it just rollicks along and you go with it...or not. I enjoyed the ride. How to score this? it's either nothing or everything, isn't it? 5/5
filmluvr81
20Dec10
There are more effective ways to bring attention to something than being this over the top. Anyone who likes this film is just saying so because they think it's "in" to like it. American Psycho was about as far as you need to go over the top to prove something. Showing the stuff that this film does it just ridiculous. I only watched it because it's next in line for the "popular" films on this site that I'm doing.
Heather-Victoria
25Apr10
I would love to see more of Makavejev's work! Sweet Movie is the only film I have seen by him. I've heard great things about Mysteries of the Organism... do you think that's a good choice as a follow up from Sweet Movie?
Jimmy Cline
10Dec09
Sweet Movie relies upon vulgar spectacles in order to receive favorable attention or any sort of critical uproar; this an unavoidable reality of Makavejev's cinema. If one were to remove a majority of the vulgar or provocative imagery from this film, we would be left with an anarchic vision of the world, full of heavy-handed political and economic metaphors, as well as a slew of liberal gut-reactions to fascism and sexual repression. There is a typical sort of critical cop-out here as well, in saying that Sweet Movie is dismissed for the wrong reasons. It's not so much that the film's vulgarity is stupid, rather that it's absymal stupidity is vulgar. Shooting footage of a Wilhelm Reich inspired commune, in which the member play with their food, shit, and urine, is not brilliant provocation or sexually liberating; it's just footage of a bunch of moronic savages with rather childlike, Rousseauian ideals of personal freedom, playing with their own waste and acting like children. The problem here isn't even so much a question of the vulgarity of all of this. What's truly insulting is how so many critics and scholars feel compelled to defend such a mindless spectacle under the assumption that a bunch Makavejev's rather vague thematic obsessions are brilliantly intentional, or even insightful. Sweet Movie embodies the most idiotic fixations of counterculture cinema; it's a deliberately vulgar spectacle of retarded sexuality, chalk full of childish political ideals and bad metaphors. It's really no surprise that this man made a documentary about Wilhelm Reich. This film almost makes William Klein's Mr. Freedom seem brilliant in comparison.
Malcolm Tent
3Dec09
Im sure this is what was intended but this movie made me feel ill. I couldn't stand watching it. Even thinking about it now makes my stomach churn. That shitting/puking/fucking/ colony takes the cake for grossest thing Ive seen in years.
Alanedit
27Dec08
Contains the single most disturbing scene and wrong I have seen: the strip dance with the kids at the end. WTF where they thinking? this is child pornography. I wasn't born before 1970 so the politics are third world symbolist images of defiance. I'll take The Holy Mountain any day over this.
Tyler Krul
8Dec08
Many may not be able to see past the overt sexuality in his films, but the incredible political aspects put him far and above many in my eyes. The scenes on the boat; surrounded by her "boys," the photos of political figureheads, the helm head of Marx on the boat. A truly fantastic film, especially when considering what Makavejev was living with during this era...