Drenched in the Technicolor 60s,Anna Biller’s outrageous, showstopping B-film oozes with A-grade potencyLA film-maker Anna Biller achieves an ecstasy of artificiality in this astounding retro fantasy horror, or delivered with absolute conviction. Its designed,produced, written, or directed and generally auteured by Biller herself,and lit and photographed by M David Mullen – apparently without digital fabrication. The Love Witch goes beyond camp, beyond pastiche; it ignites the pulpy surfaces of its tale and produces a smoke of inferior-dream sexiness and scariness. It’s a B-film with A-grade potency. But you have to stay with it, or you have to understand its absolute seriousness before getting the comedy and the satire of the transactional politics in sex. Related: The Love Witch director Anna Biller: ‘I’m in conversation with the pornography all around us Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com