Sweet Movie: Wake Up!
By June 18, 2007
Whatever you’ve heard about Sweet Movie, the audacious and outrageous political comedy by Yugoslav filmmaker Dušan Makavejev, there’s a good chance it’s wrong. Ever since Read more »
- France
- 1974
- 98 minutes
- Color
- 1.66:1
- Polish, English
- Spine #390
SYNOPSIS: Pushing his themes of sexual liberation to their boiling point, Yugoslavian art-house provocateur Dušan Makavejev followed his international sensation WR: Mysteries of the Organism with this full-throated shriek in the face of bourgeois complacency and movie watching. Sweet Movie tackles the limits of personal and political freedom with kaleidoscopic feverishness, shuttling viewers from a gynecological beauty pageant to a grotesque food orgy with scatological, taboo-shattering glee. With its lewd abandon and sketch-comedy perversity, Sweet Movie became both a cult staple and exemplar of the envelope pushing of 1970s cinema.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| Miss World 1984 | Carole Laure |
| A sailor from the Potemkin | Pierre Clémenti |
| Capt. Anna Planeta | Anna Prucnal |
| El Macho | Sami Frey |
| Director General of the Chastity Belt Foundation | Jane Mallet |
| Mama Communa | Marpessa Dawn |
| Themselves | Otto Muehl |
| the members of the Therapy Commune, Vienna | |
| Jeremiah Muscle | Roy Callender |
Credits
| Director | Dušan Makavejev |
| Screenplay | Dušan Makavejev |
| Cinematography | Pierre Lhomme |
| Music | Manos Hadjidakis |
| Editing | Yann Dedet |
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Dušan Makavejev
- New video interviews with Makavejev and Balkan film scholar Dina Iordanova
- Actress Anna Prucnal sings a song from the film
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by critic David Sterritt and Harvard professor and philosopher Stanley Cavell
