The Love Witch (2016)
Country: US
Technical: col 120m
Director: Anna Biller
Cast: Samantha Robinson, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell
Synopsis:
A beautiful witch, still smarting from having been jilted by her lover, travels to a new town for a fresh start, hoping to put her newfound necromantic skills to good use in inspiring undying devotion in her chosen 'victims'. The results, however, prove far less immortal than she expected.
Review:
Much as Tarantino and Rodriguez did with their Grindhouse double feature, Biller draws inspiration from exploitation cinema of the seventies, though of a rather more European flavour in its colour and lurid plotting (the acting is more redolent of Twin Peaks), transmuting it in the process into something more knowingly artistic. Knowingness is a double-edged sword when it comes to artistic pretensions, however, and this does get arch at times, while succeeding in tasteful erotica at others. It does, in its feminist bias, achieve one profound truth, which Elaine discovers to her cost: that men, by nature both fickle and sensitive creatures, were not meant to experience love with the same intensity as women, and just can't take it when sex fails to satisfy their mojo.
Country: US
Technical: col 120m
Director: Anna Biller
Cast: Samantha Robinson, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell
Synopsis:
A beautiful witch, still smarting from having been jilted by her lover, travels to a new town for a fresh start, hoping to put her newfound necromantic skills to good use in inspiring undying devotion in her chosen 'victims'. The results, however, prove far less immortal than she expected.
Review:
Much as Tarantino and Rodriguez did with their Grindhouse double feature, Biller draws inspiration from exploitation cinema of the seventies, though of a rather more European flavour in its colour and lurid plotting (the acting is more redolent of Twin Peaks), transmuting it in the process into something more knowingly artistic. Knowingness is a double-edged sword when it comes to artistic pretensions, however, and this does get arch at times, while succeeding in tasteful erotica at others. It does, in its feminist bias, achieve one profound truth, which Elaine discovers to her cost: that men, by nature both fickle and sensitive creatures, were not meant to experience love with the same intensity as women, and just can't take it when sex fails to satisfy their mojo.
Country: US
Technical: col 120m
Director: Anna Biller
Cast: Samantha Robinson, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell
Synopsis:
A beautiful witch, still smarting from having been jilted by her lover, travels to a new town for a fresh start, hoping to put her newfound necromantic skills to good use in inspiring undying devotion in her chosen 'victims'. The results, however, prove far less immortal than she expected.
Review:
Much as Tarantino and Rodriguez did with their Grindhouse double feature, Biller draws inspiration from exploitation cinema of the seventies, though of a rather more European flavour in its colour and lurid plotting (the acting is more redolent of Twin Peaks), transmuting it in the process into something more knowingly artistic. Knowingness is a double-edged sword when it comes to artistic pretensions, however, and this does get arch at times, while succeeding in tasteful erotica at others. It does, in its feminist bias, achieve one profound truth, which Elaine discovers to her cost: that men, by nature both fickle and sensitive creatures, were not meant to experience love with the same intensity as women, and just can't take it when sex fails to satisfy their mojo.