Sweet Movie (1967)

Description:

Pushing his themes of sexual liberation to their boiling point, Yugoslavian art-house provocateur Dusan 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 an exemplar of the envelope pushing of 1970s cinema.

Special Features:

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by Makavejev
• New video interview with Makavejev by film historian Peter Cowie
• Actress Anna Prucnal sings a song featured in the film
• New and improved English subtitles
• A booklet featuring essayb by Stanley Cavell and David Sterritt