Very well executed

A Brilliant Conflict

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

It should surprise no one who has seen Sweet Movie that the film divides opinion. Precisely when the viewer's delight at the film's irreverent humour and carnivalesque whimsy threatens to overcome his sense of revulsion he is besieged with scenes of disgusting debauchery or stock footage of mass graves. The entire film is a deliberate affront to or subversion of cinematic conventions and societal norms. Familiar images, symbols, and scenes are smeared with excrement or defiled with incongruous sexual and violent overtones. An advertisement for chocolate becomes pornography, lovemaking an opportunity for murder, and the sacred blasphemous.The brilliance of Sweet Movie lies in its unrestrained creativity and its ability to induce paroxysms of laughter. It is the perfect antidote to the solemnity, melodrama, and mawkishness of popular cinema. Few directors possess the genius to conjure up a sugar boat or chocolate bath and even fewer the effrontery to incorporate these images into a film, particularly in the peculiar and outrageous manner that Makavajev does. Sweet Movie was destined to be censored or banned from the moment its conceit gave birth to a film. Indeed, Polish authorities found Anna Prucnal's (Anna Planeta) participation in the film so objectionable that they prohibited her from entering her country of birth for several years! The film centers around a few set pieces whose utter originality and depravity make them unforgettable. To avoid revealing too much about the film, I shall discuss one. The scene of the feasting orgy, at which the actress Carole Laure was so appalled she quit the production, is one of the most disgusting in the history of cinema. I consider this an achievement. The food and drink consumed at a feast is summarily expelled, vomited, or excreted at, on, or nearby the feasting table. A second childishness inexplicably possesses the revelers leading to incontinence, babbling, and egregious misbehaviour. Each excess is mimicked or met with an even greater one. The scene culminates in a few miscreants depositing their own faeces on platters and parading them around the warehouse to the merriment of all present. Sweet Movie is thus a film one can taste, smell, and feel. The film is besides so well-seen that the viewer, for better or for worse, cannot un-see it.Sweet Movie is not merely the expression of a chaotic explosion of creativity devoid of any meaning. Makavajev has messages for the viewer notwithstanding his extremely oblique way of communicating them. Capitalism, supposedly a superior economic system to communism, is represented as equally decadent and depraved, no less violent or deadly. The film is also an ironic indictment of the excesses of the free love movement, the feasting orgy a manifestation of the most hyperbolic and grotesque caricatures of its members. Our visceral shock at their licentious and intemperate behaviour exposes our moral hypocrisy for our shock is scarcely greater when presented with evidence of mass murder. Deplorable conduct and outright criminality, moreover, when presented in a pleasant manner, by way of a beauty pageant, for instance, or perpetrated by a person whom society has arbitrarily judged as reputable, such as an extremely wealthy man, is met with disbelief or entirely excused.Sweet Movie dredges up parts of our psyche that we wish we didn't have or pretend we don't and unflinchingly, even joyously, captures them on film. If the resulting concoction is sweet, it is cloying and disgusting. I consider it a masterpiece, a must-see for fans of art cinema and the bizarre.

I saw this film four times when it was showing in Stockholm around 1975.I just want to give you my interpretation of Dusan piece of art. This is NOT a comedy, it is pure art in its most advanced form, a motion picture.The film is a warning to human kind.I hear people saying it is two 'story's'. No it is two different perspectives of the same story: Ours. And to underscore - these perspectives are intertwined, so the film jumps between them back and forth.The initial story is about a girl, that moves like a red thread from the extreme right-wing peoples screwed-up environment, attributes, actions and behavior - to the far left peoples screwed-up environment, attributes, actions and behavior. And she takes the path via the romantic, Spanish culture, in the Eiffel tower, as a midpoint of the story.This is an interesting way to describe ourselves, a sort of 'this is basically how it is.'A thing Dusan is fixated with, for good reasons, is the 'male phallus phenomenon', as this is really an important ingredients around our, actually rather primitive life. Far, far back in time.We will see many cock-related scenes - but the movie start with a directly opposite scene - the clitoris of the best valued virgin on the planet - AND the film ends with the same, now resignated woman, crawling around in melted chocolate - naked - for a commercial ad. A description of the tragic trap we can find ourselves in. The salary slavery.In between those two scenes, we will see a pissing golden erection, an afroamerican rope-jumping dick, a situation where the Spanish romantic guitarist get stuck by her vagina in a spasmodic paralysis, AND in one of the greatest phallus symbols of the planet: the Eiffel tower! Talk about sublime filmistic language! Further on, a pissing-on-food cock scene and a poop contest on a chain-driven ship-goods elevator, with the chains clappering, and the choir on this barge, singing the 'Internationale' in a funny way.The second story, shifting in and out, is about how we are tempted to try to change the Status Quo of the other perspective - change the here-and-now. Instantly by more or less violent revolutions. Anna Planeta symbolizes the tempter, with her boat filled with candy and sugar. And with Karl Marx big head in the fore of her ship. And the 'Potemkin'-sailor is the good man trying to catch the ship, i.e. join the revolution. By waving, shouting and smiling back on Anna's inviting flirts. He is the clear sighted dreamer, that want to change the world, only he could join this "revolution". And he succeeds with that, gets f***ed and murdered by the same revolution. Anna.The blue and white documentary film material showing the polish mass-graves, underscores the seriousness of this, otherwise VERY funny movie. You will never forget Sweet Movie. A must see-reel!The "warning" is NOT to try to scare people from dreaming of a better world, it is about HOW we should do it. Never use violence. Learn historical facts. Learn to identify small groups propaganda from true facts. Develop the equality based democracy. And learn the basics of Jesus true message: The simple principles of socialism: Equality, Siblingship, Freedom (not the freedom to enslave or exploit the work of others) Eternal Love, Solidarity, Commonwealth for all, where we cannot own a limited territory, only lease our fair share from the elected state-function. I.e. lease it from ourselves. As a reference: There is a part in the new testament: Acts 4, v. 32-37 that shows how they looked at the socialistic way of living, From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. The first definition of true socialism is from the message of the man, Jesus, and this part is also labeled 'Community of Property' in the New Testament. This is facts only, and I am not a Christian, but I have my personal belief-system.That was just my 2 cents! =)"Threat others as you want to be treated." , "Love all living, even your enemies." Quotes by J Von N.

Almost every review I see is just the person describing the bizarre scenes that you witness. And, I don't blame them. Sweet Movie is almost beyond words. It has weird scene after weird scene followed by a weird song. The Planet Earth and Birth song was especially likable, it had me humming and singing almost immediately. In Sweet Movie you basically follow these two women, one who appears to be a virgin to almost all things in life, and then you have another woman who is completely just taking advantage of all that life has to offer. And by the end, each lady seems to reach a pretty realistic conclusion. Like many others, probably 80% of most people who watch this, I was confused more than anything else. I did enjoy the bizarreness of it all, but at the same time I really didn't find myself enjoying the movie a whole lot. Sweet Movie is definitely not for everyone. It's without a doubt way too hard for the average person to appreciate. But if you're a movie buff, open-minded to outrageous ideas and can stand a little bit of the perverse, Sweet Movie could be a nice treat for you. The only way I see myself seeing this movie again is if I can watch it with commentary.

For those who ask what is this movie about, it is about us and our childish and deadly belief in political doctrines, east, west alike. The "western" (American) life is chocolate coated but tasteless (money has no taste), while the "eastern" (communist) is a close death-trap-ship full of useless sugar where people play with shi... (what actually communists do). So, why children in the movie? Because they are untouched and they are our hope. They can be talked in with sweets and sex, but in the end they will will reborn (spiritually) and save us. This is why the last scene has the camera moving from the feet upward (or better head ward), sort of seeing Jesus on the cross from down up, coming back to life. This move, actually, needs no dialogs. The images are a language (a sign of a great movie) in itself, and as such the visual movie "speaks" for itself. So, please do not indulge in simple minded acts like being shocked or disgusted, or you name it. Simply, real simply, like a child in the movie, listen to the story with your eyes, mind and soul. Why not 10 stars? Because it is not at the same level as Andrei Rublev.