MONDAY MAY 25

SWEET MOVIE (1974)
Directed by Dusan Makavejev
95 minutes
In English and French, with English subtitles

Riding the edge of the last convulsive death throes of the commercial avant-garde in the early 1970s, this film hit the screens with all the abandonment of a jump into the oblivion. It is a psycho-revolutionary film which mixes Wilhelm Reich with Karl Marx, creating an assault of imagery so visceral that it aims to awaken the audience with a kind of cinematic shock therapy. It pushes the audience to ask themselves what constitutes \'revolution\' and \'freedom\' and what are its dangers?

Partly filmed in Amsterdam (just take a look at what this city used to be like in the 70s!) this lost masterpiece of surrealist cinema is a bit like John Waters teaming up with Alejandro Jodorowsky! Its an exploration into the deepest areas of the sexual mind. It has since become a cult treasure, which many people have heard about but never had the chance to see. It is truly transgressive cinema, full of bizarre and unforgettable images. With the participation of the Vienna actionist Otto Muehl and his infamous AA commune!

"Pushing his themes of sexual liberation to their boiling point, Yugoslavian art-house provocateur Dusan Makavejev created this full-throated shriek in the face of bourgeois complacency and film watching. Sweet Movie tackles the limits of personal and political freedom with kaleidoscopic feverishness, shutting viewers from a gynecological beauty pageant to a grotesque food orgy with taboo-shattering glee. Sweet Movie has become both a cult staple and an example of the envelope pushing of 1970s cinema.\"

The film is accompanied by a beautiful music score by Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis. And indeed the lyrics of the theme song poses the question:
\"Is there life on earth? Is there life after birth?\"

\"THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM ON SEXUAL POLITICS I\'VE EVER SEEN\"
- Jack Nicholson

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THE NEW ANITA
Frederik Hendrikstraat 111 (Hugo de Grootplein)
Doors open at 19:30
The film starts at 20:30 sharp

Location
Frederik Hendrikstraat 111 (Hugo de Grootplein)



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