![]() Elaine is monstrous, wreaking havoc wherever she goes, but she is also sympathetic, because she has essentially been driven mad by being a woman, and is struggling to find love and acceptance in a world that has disappointed her at every turn. ‘The Love Witch’ Review: Anna Biller’s Technicolor Throwback Is a Spellbinding Feminist Delight Samantha Robinson conjures a breakthrough performance for the ages in the years most exciting. It’s a fun movie in that I went all the way with my cinema fantasies, going deeply into the visual world of an iconic witch, but it’s also a realistic portrait of a pathological narcissist. ![]() But they don’t really love her, and this makes her feel lonely and alienated. Elaine, the main character of THE LOVE WITCH, has men constantly freaking out around her because of her sexiness. I wanted to make a movie about a witch, because I think that every woman is made to feel like a witch by the men who don’t understand her: that is, mysterious, dangerous, different, abnormal. With a visual style that pays tribute to Technicolor thrillers of the ‘60s, THE LOVE WITCH explores female fantasy and the repercussions of pathological narcissism. The film, and by extension its filmmaker, is obsessed with erotic feminine beauty of a certain vintage as well as the cultivation of it. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder. The Love Witch came out in 2016 and is set in the present day, but it pays heavy homage to culture of the 1960s with its horror film visuals and its classic Hollywood fashion aesthetic. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. Starring: Samantha Robinson, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Jared Sanford, Robert Seeley, Jennifer IngrumĮlaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. Written, Produced, and Directed by: Anna Biller ![]() And, even making allowances for "subversion of genre", horror-fans will find it irredeemably fright-free.(120:00) (Supernatural Exploitation) (USA) (35mm) There are a few good laughs, especially in an early sequence where our titular spellbinder goes home with her first conquest, but not enough. As a result, it goes on forever, while the tongue-in-cheek attitude is so unbearably arch it leaves the actors stranded in a joking-but-not-joking limbo. ![]() Full credit to writer-director-designer Anna Biller for owning absolute control of her feature debut, which one can easily believe was pre-conceived within an inch of it's life, but for all the fetishistic swoon factor of faithfully relocating mid-'60s style and mood into a nominally contemporary setting, she can't (yet) dramatize or properly edit a scene to save herself. The Love Witch (2016) 116 minutes Cast Samantha Robinson as Elaine Gian Keys as Griff Laura Waddell as Trish Jeffrey Vincent Parise as Wayne Jared Sanford as Gahan Robert Seeley as Richard Jennifer Ingrum as Barbara Elle Evans as Star Lily Holleman as Miss Curtis Bernard Bullen as Renaissance Lord Kaye L. Full credit to writer-director-designer Anna Biller for owning absolute control of her feature debut, which one can easily believe was pre-conceived An aesthetic wet-dream with an irresistibly seductive leading lady, The Love Witch may well be, but in dramatic terms it's a grinding bore. After the devastation of being left by her husband, Jerry, Elaine (Samantha Robinson) moves to a new town to begin a new life and find the. An aesthetic wet-dream with an irresistibly seductive leading lady, The Love Witch may well be, but in dramatic terms it's a grinding bore. ![]()
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