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.
SPECIAL 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: Essays by critic David Sterritt and Harvard professor and philosopher Stanley Cavell
New cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
