Directed by Dušan Makavejev • 1974 • France
Starring Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal

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.