a captivating soft-core horror dream!!
The Love Witch is an incredible movie, one of the best of the last two decades at least. Anna Biller's first feature film Viva was its precursor and already a great first attempt at conveying the idea of art in cinema. With The Love Witch, Biller achieves that goal and surpasses all expectations. It is an amazing technical feat, even more so when you realise that she herself had a literal hand in all the aspects of her film; the art, designs, sets, props, costumes as well as obviously writing and directing.
This time and unlike Viva, she doesn't act in the main role and cedes that position to Samantha Robinson, who is stellar. Her performance echoes the ones from the industry's greatest. She is charm and presence incarnate.
To viewers who didn't understand the acting at times, let me tell you this: think theater on a reel and not method acting. I personally never once thought the acting was weird or bad or whichever derogatory argument. It is just great and works as a stunning aesthetic device in the film, like all its other aspects do and are; from the incredible use of colours, to the mystifying music.
The Love Witch is a technical and artistic triumph. It is the definition of an aesthetic movie with depth and character, and if this does not fit the idea of cinema as art, I don't know what does.
1 heart for the visuals and 1 heart for dying men. other than that, the movie was bad
The Love Witch is like a 50s jock strap: I appreciated the retro feel but the rest let me down.
Goes on a little too long, but for the most part, this is an affectionate pastiche of the technicolor nightmares of old. Odd, beguiling, hypnotic.
Really striking set and costume design, the look of the movie overall is fantastic. Plot-wise, it felt really disconnected, borderline surreal. There's a lot of feminist thought and interesting "set-pieces" making points along those lines, but coherence of the story (if that even mattered to Biller) pretty clearly takes a backseat.
Seemed like a student film, and the student had rich parents. Unfortunately, money doesn't guarantee plot coherency, engagement, or skilled actors.
I could do without that entire renaissance scene.
A much better watch the second time through.
Not a comedy by any stretch, mostly just mildly erotic fantasy, psychedelic almost. When the credits rolled I was still unsure why they went with 60s aesthetics (and they kind of ruined it by having one character use a cellphone) but it did have a soothing effect. If it's a love letter to that era, or feminist commentary, that's fine, but that doesn't excuse the cinematic bloat and lack of narrative substance—a movie is not a piece of decoration.
Right up my alley, loved it! -1 star for her littering on that park bench
Why did I even love this film?
Naughty witches always make that one mistake
Curious vintage style movie and narrative style decades ago.
humans too wrong. but time can heal all. not anyone's fault, that's destiny
Shout by Carlos Fernando IbarraBlockedParent2017-06-22T14:11:11Z
Quite a genuine and affectionate throwback, yet it's not quite as "stirring" or funny as I was lead to believe, nor does it have the horror elements the genre was known for. The visuals are impressive though, as the 70s aesthetic is captured lovingly.