SWEET MOVIE Tribute to Dusan Makavejev: Genuine Revolutionary

Sweet Movie is literally sweet with lovemaking in a bed of sugar and a girl being bathed in chocolate for advertising purposes But it also has an underpinning of scatology and a zany look at sensuality. Neither hard nor softcore, the Yugoslav filmmaker’s first film in the West, a French-Canadian coproduction, is provocative, and may turn many on. It begins as broad funny satire on the richest man in the world looking for a virgin to marry, and then goes into the girl’s hegira as she finds personal sensual liberation with a revolutionary type woman who plows the rivers in a boat called Survival with a giant head of Karl Marx on its prow The virgin is played with winsome innocence and then phlegmatism and eventual awakening by Carole Laure. -Variety