Sweet Movie (DVD)

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.