Reviews

There are some films that are designed to shock, some designed to titillate, some that delight in disgusting the view. For Makavejev, shock, disgust and titillation are never the purpose, but a means to a form of psycho-liberation. Makavejev in Sweet Movie hurtles us head first into the confronting theses of Post-Freudian Wilhelm Reich. We are forced to confront our relationship to our primal beings. He literally smears our consciousness with faeces, vomit and carnality.

We cannot watch orgiastic scenes of regressive acts, a sensual striptease played out inches from the faces of young boys, Carol Laure masturbating in a pool of molten chocolate without a visceral reaction. We are forced to confront our own repressed desires and shine a light in the dark recesses of our own psyche.

Here is revolution at it's most personal, montaged together with lashings of wild humour. Allow your head to give up control and come along for the ride. Recommended to anyone who is willing to put their concept of themselves on the line a risk a flirtation with prurient madness.

8/10

Radical filmmaking - concept, execution and philsophy. Richard Linklater and his courageous fellow travellers and created a moment in cinematic history as dramatic and groundbreaking as the Nouvelle Vague of the sixties and seventies.

Technique and content combine to transport the viewer into new realms of thought and expression - a freedom to move within a realm of ideas, feelings and visual stimulation that combine to define a whole new realm of art. Here for the first time, film and multimedia combine to illustrate a thesis that is fundamental to the ongoing survival of our species as the accelerate through the new millennium.

Go and see this film. As soon as the DVD comes out, go and own this film. This is a statement for our time - our moment in history. compulsory viewing.