KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Dalbert Pringle After I patiently endured having Sweet Movie's sexual carnage (that included cruelty, hatefulness, and humiliation) repeatedly ground into my face for 100 minutes - I am now completely convinced that its director/writer, Dusan Makavejev was nothing but an absolute peasant of the lowest calibre.And the degrading, white-trash, gutter-level attitude that prevails throughout this film's storyline proves my accusation against Makavejev to be 100% correct, over and over again.I mean - It really figures that this picture is so vile and sick-minded in nature that one of its most triumphant "highlights" is for the viewer to witness the exuberant celebration of the depiction of multiple bowel movements at close range. (Spare me!)C'mon - Let's face it - Because 1974's "Sweet Movie" is a foreign film - The snobs-of-cinema gloat all over it and self-righteously christen it as being "Art House".But - You can be sure - Had "Sweet Movie" been an American release it would have promptly been reduced to the level of pure "Trash-House" of the trashiest kind.*Note* - I think it's really disturbing to find out that the National Film Board of Canada was actually involved in partially financing this despicable production.

catheter1st I must say that this film is nothing like what I expected. It seems to be a film-play commentary on the subjects of sexual boundaries and Marxism.The importance of virginity, the bizarre nature of water sports, and a naked starlet covered in liquid chocolate. Captain Anna Planeta makes her way through the canals of Amsterdam on her ship Survival, a quasi-communist, sugar soaked den of debauchery and murder. She picks up the hitchhiking Potempkin, and declares him her sexual proletariat.Meanwhile Miss World 1984 after being traumatized by golden phallus is karate-chopped by a large black man, packed into a suitcase and shipped to Paris, where she engages in public sex, ends up traumatized as a result, and is shipped off to a Therapie-Commune for compassionate care while she recovers. Here we find a group of people who seek therapy in all sorts of overt sexual, natal, and scatological situations. There is actually a pooping contest! Meanwhile Captain Anna Planeta has managed to entice some 10 year old boys onto Survival, and in a ribbon-suit that would make Sam Lowry of Brazil envious, she proceeds to seduce the children! Very dangerous film-making, even by todays standards. According to the actress who played the seductress, the scene was enough to cause a scandal in her home country of Poland, getting her banned for 7 years.Intersperse all this with actual footage of the exhumations of the mass graves of the Soviet Katyn Massacre, and there you have it in a nutshell.The term Art House shocker has never had a more appropriate film behind it, and I have seen a lot of them. Not for everyone, but certainly for the avid Art-cinema fan.

Polaris_DiB When I saw "Montenegro" all those years ago, it never really occurred to me that such a fantastic, idiosyncratic, and mysterious movie would actually come from a director that made other movies, too. It's just one of those things where each movie seems so ultimately different that it isn't feasible that there could be more of the same."Sweet Movie", to put it quite simply, is about excess. It's the story of two women, one a psychotic roaming candy-making pedophile boat woman, the other a delicate model/constant victim of sexual faux pas and impotency. The movie is filled with food, sex, and the gore that comes from food and sex. As the victimized woman finds herself in increasingly ridiculous situations and the psychotic woman puts people in others, many forms of abject art (revulsion/attraction, spewing and eating, killing and fornicating) keep a loaded bullet to the face of the viewer, mixed of course with a fair share of political asides and cultural themes (such as this: the fact that religious people appear scattered throughout the movie and are no more surprised by the activities of the characters than anyone else).This movie falls squarely between something you'd expect from Alejandro Jodorowsky and Juzo Atami. Unlike Jodorowsky's work, however, the symbolism has a lot of weight, and unlike Atami, there's a lot more ambiguity. Dusan Makavejev is one of the most post-modern filmmakers out there, constantly asking questions that previously didn't exist, and then proving that there's no answer to them. This movie comes closer to a strong theme than "Montenegro", but it's full of a lot of self-awareness that purposefully deconstructs the very notion of "theme". (A Mariachi singer in Paris is filmed, and through distraction is shown to be lip-syncing. Later in the film he's actually supposed to be singing--and again is shown to be lip-syncing.) In the end, it's hard to know what exactly to feel about this movie, minus revulsion for those of weak stomachs. It's both beautiful and intensely repulsive, which is a feat in either direction.--PolarisDiB

florinc 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.