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Montenegro

A sultry, erotic comedy.

1981 · 1h 36m · R Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by Dušan Makavejev

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Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for carrying pruning shears, she meets a young Yugoslav woman and goes with her to a Gypsy enclave where she's fought over, takes a lover, helps with the sordid entertainment at a bar, and returns home more dangerous than before. The film also tells parallel stories of Marilyn's daughter becoming a junior homemaker as the young immigrant practices her striptease.

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88%
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Fresh

There can be something absolutely liberating about a movie that makes up its rules as it goes along.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten

A halfheartedly Surreal comedy filled with forced high spirits, unconvincing lunacies and failed sight gags.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh

A paean to the liberating power of dirt, as in both grime and smut.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh

If it begins deceptively, as though setting out to be your typically angst-ridden Swedish art movie, by the time it's reached its set of climaxes,Makavejev's film could not have strayed further from the beaten track.

Time Out

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