Sweet Movie

Miss Monde 1984 / Miss Canada, Carole Laure, wins a contest for the “most virgin” and finds herself promised to a milk-industry tycoon. Yet the marriage quickly comes with a degrading, puritanical introduction to sex, prompting her to tell her mother-in-law—Mama Communa Marpessa Dawn—that she plans to leave. The tension escalates when the family’s bodyguard steps in, subjects her to further humiliation, and eventually cartons her away in a trunk bound for Paris. On the city’s iconic ascent, the Eiffel Tower, she awkwardly crosses paths with a Latin singer, El Macho [Sami Frey], and the two share a fleeting, misguided encounter. Their moment is abruptly interrupted by touring nuns, who frighten the lovers into a dramatic moment of penis captivus. In the aftermath, she is drawn into an artist commune led by Otto Muehl [Otto Muehl], where a surprising, almost ritualistic openness takes hold. The commune stages liberating sessions in which a member, with the support of the others, undergoes a (re)birth—crying, urinating, and defecating like a baby, while the rest of the group cleans and pampers him, creating a curious mix of care and spectacle. Later, she appears in a television advertisement that renders her naked, coated in liquid chocolate, striking seductive poses, and finally submerged in the chocolate, a stark image of consumption and exposure.

In a separate thread, Anna Planeta [Anna Prucnal] navigates the canals of Amsterdam aboard a candy-filled boat, its prow bearing a large papier-mâché head of Karl Marx. She picks up the hitchhiking sailor Potemkin [Pierre Clémenti], though she warns him that love will spell doom for him. He ignores the warning and their romance deepens, culminating in a moment of love that ends with her stabbing him to death in a nest fashioned from sugar. She then draws children into her world of sweets and revolution, only to be captured by Dutch police who lay plastic sacks containing the children’s bodies along the canal, signaling a grim murder. The film closes with the children unseen by the others, reborn from their plastic cocoons and entering a future that remains unknowable to the adults around them.

Last Updated: October 07, 2025 at 08:49